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Obasanjo made it clear that he considered the election a “do or die affair” and would hand over power only to Yar’Adua.
Justice was a communal affair and society set a high store by social harmony and peace.
Dalli denies any involvement in the affair, suggesting instead that Barroso sacked him to appease vested interests, and claims that his Maltese associate’s alleged corruption was simply well-organized entrapment.
Anti-smoking lobbies consider the affair – which helps powerful tobacco lobbies – a slap in the face of European consumers.
Is it any surprise that at the height of the Fillon affair, the right-wing bosses and their phantom coaches turned (doctrinal and stylistic differences be damned!) to their benchwarmers, who were supposed to be waiting to enter the game?
A novel describing a love affair between a Palestinian boy and a Jewish girl has been banned from school curricula.
Until the United Nations-backed Libyan intervention, Europe seemed increasingly a bystander in international affairs, and even its participation in Libya is largely a Franco-British affair, with Germany opting out and choosing a quiet life.
To boot, we have been told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.
Now, with futures markets predicting that oil will be $50 to $60 a barrel for the next two years, demand for gas-guzzlers has evaporated, taking with it the prospects for America’s auto companies, whose corporate strategies have bet on low oil prices and America’s love affair with the SUV.
PARIS -- Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy took himself off his country’s most-eligible-bachelor list by publicly acknowledging his affair with supermodel-turned-pop-musician Carla Bruni during a romantic trip to Euro Disney, he’s run into trouble.
Choosing candidates has been an affair confined solely to political parties.
The Depopulation of EuropeBy common consent, the recent EU summit at Stockholm was a dull affair.
There were always exaggerated claims that bringing in the new members would be a costly affair, just as petty and narrow prejudices blemished the willingness to open up Europe’s borders for “Polish plumbers.”
There are two other disturbing aspects to the drone affair.
Judging by the salacious details revealed so far in the Bo affair, including the implication of his wife in the murder of a British businessman, it seems that the Party does indeed have good reason to be afraid.
The Bo affair has revealed another source of the regime’s fragility: the extent of the power struggle and disunity among the Party’s top officials.
While political infighting obviously might lie behind the Chinese government’s hesitancy and ineptness in managing the scandal, the Party undermined its public credibility further by initially trying to cover up the seriousness of the affair.
Will it affect their love affair with the internal combustion engine and air conditioning?
So the discussions about what to include in such a new treaty ought to begin immediately, because, even with European leaders under extreme pressure to agree quickly, negotiations will necessarily be a prolonged affair.
Israeli elections are in some ways a tribal affair; people vote on the basis of memories, insults, religious sensibilities, and group grievances.
I was playing the role of “Richard,” the only son of a rich family who was having an affair with the house maid.
It is too early to say, but one thing is certain: as the role of the state decreases and the role of the market increases, Korean capitalism will not necessarily become an open American-style affair.
His love life is not seen as a human, romantic affair and a sign of youthful energy, but as a possibly fatal distraction, the ultimate proof of his “immaturity.”
Indeed, in the Khodorkovsky affair, all procedural requirements have been blithely neglected.
The official spin is that Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank economist, was reassigned to prepare her for higher office in 2007, and that the move signals the end of the President’s love affair with IMF-guided neo-liberal reforms.
But, however much the Vichyist Le Pen and the Maduro-manqué Mélénchon might wish otherwise, the Benalla affair is no Watergate.
Elmer was quickly convicted of violating Switzerland’s bank-secrecy law, but few journalists have demanded that Assange be prosecuted for his role in the affair.
Unlike today's other profound biomedical revolution - a high tech affair involving decoding our genome - stem cell research is a much more low-tech enterprise.
By the time Nixon fired Cox, the Watergate affair had been building for far longer than the allegations about Trump and Russia have, so nerves had been rubbed raw.
The skeptics also ignore the reality that no government will want to put its international reputation at risk – as Australia did with the Tampa affair – by being indifferent to the horrifying toll of deaths at sea.
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