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As fractious as it may be, China Inc will not be able to run at a loss.

The next election is not due until 2012, and a fractious opposition seems unable to topple his minority government.

The Nobel Committee has achieved something of a first by bringing the fractious Twitterverse into such widespread agreement.

He was one of the few Belgians able to gather support from the fractious French and Dutch language groups in the country.

Ominously for Beijing, the value of the RMB may be one of the few things the fractious American political class seems to agree on.

Debates about the extent to which tax and welfare policy should redistribute wealth from rich to poor tend to be particularly fractious.

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A non-German would be the best bet to hold the ring in an ECB council that looks likely to become more fractious.

But the two parties did not exactly campaign in harmony, and differences over taxation and spending may make their alliance a fractious one.

The veto was unexpected and was being seen as a watershed in Britain's fractious relationship with the rest of Europe.

The United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa, is likely to be a fractious and unsuccessful affair.

This points either to a large, fractious coalition or to a minority government.

The meeting was the first between officials of the two nations' ruling parties in nearly six fractious decades.

Moreover, disputes are likely to erupt between the presidency and the fractious National Assembly over the distribution of executive powers.

A fractious group of left-wing parties is not always reliable and unlikely to back tough reforms.

The failure (so far) of the Norwegian authorities to expel Mullah Krekar, a fractious Islamic cleric, has caused agitation.

He presided over a mineral-resources and logging boom, and built his National Alliance into the dominant party in a fractious parliament.

In other times of crisis, the country found a way forward despite the fractious aspects of democracy.

Working out what fractious parties, pressure groups and power brokers are up to is virtually impossible.

He had to run the country, too, and wrestle with a fractious congress at every point to get things done.

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Everybody agrees that the last thing that Italy needs is another succession of fractious, short-lived governments.

For one, his optimism that the U. S. can get its fiscal house in order confronts a very fractious political environment.

His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place.

It is about a beautiful and fractious zingara who loves Don Jose, an army officer, and used all her wiles to tempt him into loving her.

An attempt two years ago to streamline the process has not altered its fundamentally fractious nature.

The pundits, who to a man, predicted a weak and fractious coalition dependent on regional leaders, were stuffed.

Boumsong has had a fractious relationship with the Juve fans after some disappointing performances in Serie B.

The art of Belgian political leadership consists of bringing consensus to a broad and fractious coalition.

The new import tariffs come as relations between China and the U. S. are becoming increasing fractious.

Those agitating for change in places such as Syria, in the heart of the fractious Middle East, will be emboldened.

Ideally, European governments would be less feeble and fractious.

We were fractious and overpaid . . . The world was flush with internet cash and we got our fair share of it.

His fractious reformists, however, proved no match for the conservatives entrenched in the power structure.

Van Rompuy has already shown a talent as a consensus builder when it comes to Belgium's fractious politics.

It might also help to unite a fractious opposition against what they portray as an assault on democracy.

The deal emerged late on Saturday after fractious public exchanges earlier in the day between Republicans and Democrats.

But it is also a signal to a fractious Europe that markets are losing patience with endless political dithering.

Rio, along with other leading global mining groups, is currently engaged in fractious negotiations with Beijing over iron ore pricing.

President Obama's deficit reduction plans sets the stage for a fractious political battle regarding the $14. 3 trillion debt ceiling.

After a fractious call with analysts, his irritated shareholders demonstrated their discontent.

As the Communist Party prepares to celebrate 60 years in power on October 1st, it worries that citizens will be in a fractious mood.

EVERYONE knows it takes chameleon qualities to survive the fractious, shifting politics of Lebanon.

The test, which will likely happen Monday or Tuesday, is a pivotal moment in the fractious inter-Korean relationship.

Its government is stable, if fractious. Its security forces can defend the country against terrorists and insurgents.

Southern Nigeria is far more fractious and Mr. Jonathan would likely split that vote with several other candidates.

He seems, within his discourse, distracted by hectoring students and fractious fellow-faculty.

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When it comes to governing this violent, fractious land, everything, it seems, has its price.

The euro zone's political leaders, alas, are a fractious and underwhelming lot.

April's trade data for the country contain little to galvanize fractious global commodity markets.

Managing a fractious coalition is just the start of the Maoists' troubles.

Energy politics with Turkmenistan were fractious during the rule of Mr Niyazov , who also started gas supply talks with the Chinese .

Edward had intended to subdue Scotland, a fractious and self-determined northern neighbor, for a long time.

In the fractious, the national anthem "once is we meet the challenges of the answer. "

Sino- Indian relations, too, have become noticeably more fractious.

Davos instead has been locked in fractious debate about bankers' bonuses, US jobs and the financial implosion of Greece.

Nepal is led by a fractious coalition, which the Maoists want to widen by including regional parties from the south and south-east.

He had worked with the diverse , fractious iraqi opposition.

In fractious northern Uganda cereal output is likely to fall by half.

To make that promise credible, Syria's fractious opposition must unite.

Former Communists dominated the government until 1996, when they were swept from power by a fractious coalition of centrist parties.

Nor has the often-fractious party forged consensus on long-term steps to address the bulging public debt.

We are all running faster and faster on our pointless, addictive wheels of busyness and we have become inefficient, frazzled and fractious.

It is still fractious, and in many places corrupt.

He soon found himself enmeshed in the fractious Google Books lawsuit.

Run by fractious triumvirate, it produced some noble plays.

Moreover, they have given the fractious opposition a new cause to unite around.

But the development world is large and fractious with dozens of agencies jockeying for position to dole out aid, advice and research.

Can Syria's fractious opposition be melded into one?

Ms Sahlin's alliance with the Greens and the Left party has been fractious.

Then there is the issue of upgrading the infrastructure on time in a fractious democracy.

A haven carries risks, if only because the opposition is so fractious.

Nepal, a country of 28m people, is a poor, lawless and fractious place.

It is also, of course, unready, untrained and fractious.

That may make the world a little less fractious.

Inveterate smokers purchase tobacco furtively because they are fearful of their fractious wives.

His fractious opposition is contesting a big state election in Sarawak on April 16th.

But also ahead of the World Cup, South Africa has become an increasingly fractious place.

That is the real lesson of the fractious Brussels summit.

The PT now has 79 of the 513 lower-house seats and 10 of 81 in the Senate, and has relied on a big, fractious coalition.

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