1.   Dole, raised in a Democratic family, registered as a Republican because the party dominated local politics.

2.   In Iowa, where the antiabortion movement dominates Republican politics, Buchanan moved to stake out the strongest position on the subject.

3.   The Republicans had dominated presidential politics for almost twenty-five years when Clinton began his bid for the White House.

4.   The two superpowers that dominated international politics.

5.   Hafez al-Assad, who with members of his small Alawite clan has dominated Syrian politics for two decades.

6.   In no system in which democratic political institutions are still vibrant do bureaucracies dominate politics.

7.   Such a conflict is bound to dominate politics, as control of government policy is necessary if valuable resources are to be acquired by an emergent capitalist class.

8.   Ricimer more than anyone else dominated the politics of the last twenty years of the Roman Empire in the west.

9.   And similar anxieties are rippling across much of southern Africa, where parties associated with liberation movements in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique still dominate national politics.

10.   As is common in north Indian villages, politics is dominated by caste-based voting.