1.   According to this approach, because local governments have their own political bases, they are always potential rivals to the centre.

2.   After that, any chief minister daring to build his own political base stood in danger of being turned out.

3.   Each would have spent more time churning up enthusiasm within his political base.

4.   He said his only political base was Indira Gandhi.

5.   He will have to work himself into the job and build a firm political base.

6.   Netanyahu faces a major challenge from what, until now, had been his political base.

7.   They will also be concerned with more immediate issues involving the well-being of the party or other organization providing their political base.

8.   Always viewed by the Communist leadership as its political base, state-owned industry has been coddled with government orders and capital.

9.   And he needs their political base to win parliamentary elections in July.

10.   And his vice presidential campaign has allowed him to build a political base of supporters in every corner of the country.