1.   Perhaps most importantly, city halls provide the opposition with a significant political platform before national elections later this year.

2.   Up until then, the Contract was far clearer than most political platforms.

3.   Komsomol leaders called for a revitalized voluntary democratic organization, independent of, but sharing a political platform with, the CPSU.

4.   Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years.

5.   Aristide took those lessons one step further, he said, by using his pulpit as a political platform from which he preached for a new social order.

6.   Before that, voters had chosen a political party, which nominated its leader and clumsily constructed political platforms.

7.   A couple of nights later, I was writing her political party platform.

8.   Administration officials and Democrats in the Senate denied that they flipped on the issue to deny Republicans a political platform plank.

9.   All base their appeal on ethnic loyalty rather than any defined political platforms.