1.   The rival political parties are already jockeying for power.

2.   This meant that whichever of the leading candidates was eventually declared president, he or she would have to face a legislature dominated by a rival party.

3.   At every stop, she depicts Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the current chief minister and leader of the rival party, as the man responsible for her legal woes.

4.   A prominent South Korean religious leader appears to have defected to North Korea, sparking a new political battle between rival political parties in the South.

5.   But he said that there had been several clashes between members of the two rival parties, whose leaders are contesting the presidential election scheduled for March.

6.   But the platform veers sharply from the rival party on abortion rights, gun control, campaign finance legislation and laws aimed at extending rights for gays.

7.   But there were Independence Days two centuries ago when the consummate celebration of American nationalism decayed into bitter disputes between rival political parties.

8.   Childs and Thomas H. Lee, his former business partner, apparently had no trouble working together and financing rival political parties.

9.   Clinton, who has been casting himself as a non-partisan leader above the political fray, pointedly skewered the ideological stereotypes of the rival parties.

10.   Don Ritchie, a Senate historian, says White House-Senate dealings over presidential appointments are particularly troubled when rival parties control each institution.