1.   If her party backed her, she said, she would stand in presidential elections later in the year.

2.   South Antrim MP Clifford Forsythe pointed out that his party had backed a similar retirement policy in its General Election manifesto last year.

3.   At that point, either both parties back off or Democrats hammer Republicans, using fear and hyperbole.

4.   A salvage party was sent back, aboard the destroyer Hammann, to recover the dead and try to right the ship.

5.   Both parties can back out if the courtship goes badly.

6.   But the pact had a clause permitting each party to back out of it six months after giving notice.

7.   But the parties are jointly backing candidates in some provincial races.

8.   But the party has backed down from such threats before.

9.   In a show of political unity, a Democratic House leader said his party would back military action.