1.   They were more akin to the machine politicians we know today than to the noble coalition builders and power-brokers who preceded them.

2.   As a professional politician, Mfume has been a coalition builder.

3.   Ferrer said the city still needs a coalition builder and a new direction, a role he said he intends to provide.

4.   His daughter said he would be remembered as a coalition builder.

5.   In life, Bradley was known as a coalition builder, a man with a golden gift, the ability to bring people together across color and class lines.

6.   Milk was a coalition builder who brought Asians into the political process in a significant way, but he also was a master of the media.

7.   That detente is a timely gift for Bush as he fashions himself as a coalition builder who would foster bipartisanship in Washington.

8.   We endorse Gentile as a coalition builder and a promising leader in Albany.