Burma's last elections were in 1990, when the party of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won by a landslide.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Specter had been a Republican senator up until last year, when he switched to the Democratic Party, with the backing of President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The case dates back to the 1990s when Mr.Gul was a senior member of the Islamist Welfare party which was closed by the constitutional court.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Everyone loves a costume party. ." And when it's the world's biggest comic book convention - some find it simply too hard to resist dressing up.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

They are seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the November election, and were forced into a runoff when neither received more than 50 percent of the vote in a primary vote last month.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

President Obama's first State of the Union address came at a time when his Democratic Party is still reeling from a stinging defeat last week for a U.S.Senate seat in the heavily Democratic state, Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

"And when other people wanted to cave in, when people wanted to say, including a very powerful man in our party said, 'let's just do children's health care and let's come back at it another day,' she said no,this country needs health care reform, we are going to take on the insurance industry, we are going to get it done."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11