41.  But other leaders of her party had said even before the election that they would do nothing to help the governing party increase its power.

42.  But opposition groups say his real aim is to convert the canal into an asset of the governing party.

43.  But recent events suggest that at least some hard-liners in the governing party still believe that electoral chicanery can help them triumph.

44.  But some candidates said the measures the government described as intended to level the playing field were in reality tailored to favor General Bashir and the governing party.

45.  But Sharad Pawar, a Congress Party leader, accused the governing party of using the massacres for its own political ends.

46.  But the movement and the governing party also need each other.

47.  But such heavy-handedness increasingly characterizes the politics of the governing party, the Kenyan African National Union.

48.  But there is no doubt now that pressure on the governing party is rising.

49.  But there is no doubt that the governing party is worried about losing disaffected voters.

50.  But the governing party, the Kenya African National Union, has flatly refused to consider changing the election rules, much less replacing the constitution.