1.   Although it meant postponing the ninth party congress by a few weeks, a last-minute compromise was found.

2.   They will boost Communist Party reformers, who are battling hard-line opponents before a crucial autumn party congress.

3.   A lot has changed after the party congress.

4.   His position as leader will be under threat at a party congress due next month.

5.   Argana initially acceded to their demands for the convening of a party congress to select a new leadership, but later described the demonstrators as hooligans.

6.   Moser, who had returned to the country from the USA on the eve of the party congress, advocated close co-operation with the ruling UDF alliance.

7.   The Democratic Party, a member of Civic Union, which was simultaneously holding its party congress, expressed support for the new Chernomyrdin Cabinet.

8.   An uprising against his economic policies by rank-and-file members during a national party congress in August made it clear he had lost control.

9.   And China, with Deng Xiaoping dead and a party congress looming, is ripe for political change.

10.   And provincial party congresses have, with a few notable exceptions, come out fervently in favor of a third term.