In the end, just days after elections in which President Bush's party solidified its control of Congress, the two sides suddenly reached agreement on a resolution in the Security Council giving Iraq "a final opportunity" to disarm peacefully or face "serious consequences".
While there are senators and congressmen on the Democrat side that have fought for and against immigration reform, as far as team line-drawing, the image of the Democrats as the pro-immigration party solidified during the election: issues like border security, "self-deportation," SB 1070 and other aspects of anti-immigrant rhetoric were put to the forefront.
Yet his poll rating has continued to suffer, while the far-right Golden Dawn party has solidified its position as Greece's third-biggest party.
It took the outside world years to learn of Kim Jong-il's own climb up party ranks, solidified at the last conference in 1980, to inherit supreme power when his father, Kim Il-sung, died in 1994.
Ms. Zille said she expected her party to solidify its hold in Cape Town, where it now governs in a coalition, and win enough votes in the Port Elizabeth area to force a similar arrangement there.
Democratic committee chairs and would-be chairs will rake in campaign contributions, as the business world expects the party to solidify control of Congress.
Meanwhile, political opponents of the PYD have disappeared or been killed as the party has solidified its control, Human Rights Watch reported in the summer of 2014.
Expect the parties to solidify their disagreements on that in the coming years.
Together, the two parties helped solidify the Bluegrass State as one of the premier political engines of the West.
The political settlement Spaniards agreed on as they emerged from dictatorship in the 1970s gave huge power to the parties to solidify democracy.
Each party's support is solidifying rather than growing; there are fewer and fewer people switching between the main parties, while those voters who remain in-play are still, for the most part, tuning out the election.
