11.  Still, there are signs of an increasingly receptive climate that could give rise to a powerful new party in the next decade.

12.  The head of a powerful state party, the All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam, she has been out campaigning for state assembly elections.

13.  The third most powerful party, the Inkatha Freedom Party, is boycotting the process over disputes surrounding the rights of provinces.

14.  Unruly parliaments, especially where members can be bought and sold, paralyze administration or tempt a powerful party to rule without reference to the legislature.

15.  Partial election returns early Friday show the powerful party of Prime Minister Ali Benflis ahead in a legislative ballot in Algeria, national radio reported.

16.  Powerful regional party threatens to quit governing coalition.

17.  Pensioners forming powerful political party.

18.  But the powerful party has been ripped apart by infighting in recent years as reformers face off with members of the old guard.

19.  Congress, for decades the most powerful party in India, has been battered in recent years by accusations it is corrupt and out of touch.

20.  Congress, for decades the most powerful party in India, has been battered in recent years by charges that its leaders were corrupt and out of touch.