Mr Prescott's role as a power-broker and counsellor smoothed the often strained relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and also helped ensure a trouble-free transition from one leader to the other.
The moral compass that would otherwise support a pain-free demographic transition and accompanying ecological renaissance appears all but non-existent, even amid the greenest of conversations and investor appetites.
Do you really trust them they will lead the transition to free and fair election?
There are vast differences among the countries, depending on how fast and how masterfully they handled the transition to free markets and democracy.
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And we support a democratic transition, free and fair elections, and a government that arises out of that process that is responsive to the aspirations of the Libyan people.
South Africa, the Phillipines and a few others made the transition from authoritarian to free country without a long layover in totalitarianism.
Democratic leaders blocked such a vote arguing such an approach could hurt the environment as well as delay a transition to carbon-free, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy.
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At a security conference in Munich, Germany, the weekend before Mubarak stepped down, Clinton sought to emphasize the "orderly" aspects of the transition, warning that free and fair elections leading to true democracy in Egypt would take time, care and sophisticated planning that could be complicated by a hasty exit by Mubarak, given the country's lack of a political culture.
The chancellor is saying that the transition to a nuclear-free future will be well-considered, and definite.
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Simply put, there is no inventory of available spectrum, and the FCC has been unable to free any up since the digital TV transition in 2008.
Guo Yushan, the leader of another, less well-known NGO, a free-market research group called the Transition Institute, says he too has recently been accused of tax irregularities.
The optimistic scenario is that it is part of the ambitious transition from Socialism to a free market, with highways and trains that inspire envy even in the developed world.
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Vice President Suleiman is in charge of a process in representing the Egyptian government to negotiate with those not in government in order to get us on a path toward an orderly transition that ends in a free and fair election.
Our main message besides restraint and nonviolence, Jim, is that as the President said a few days ago, the government of Egypt must undertake, through negotiations with a broad base of those not currently in the government, direct negotiations to -- toward an orderly transition that gets us to free and fair elections.
International observers have declared Ukraine's elections free and fair and called for a peaceful transition of power.
The legacy carriers could identify a few local areas in which to test transition to an all IP network free of outmoded regulations and see if doing so inadvertently interferes with normal market behavior.
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Fortunately, the FCC, at the urging of Commissioner Ajit Pai, has just launched a new task force to study the much needed final transition away from obsolete telephone regulation and toward the free, open, and unlimited era of apps.
The IPDC is the only intergovernmental programme in the UN system mandated to promote the development of free, independent and pluralistic media in developing countries and countries in transition.
The second transition Zander hoped to implement was fully developing a brand that is free from the entanglements of the wireless carriers.
And during this transition, we will pursue a lasting peace with those who break free of al Qaeda and respect the Afghan constitution and lay down arms.
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EU's proposals, made in deference to German and Austrian fears of being flooded by cheap labour from the east, to impose a transition period of up to seven years on the newcomers before completely free movement of labour is allowed within an enlarged Union.
The transition -- remember that the transition we will see throughout this process happened many, many times on the road to free and fair elections.
That transition must initiate a process that respects the universal rights of the Egyptian people and that leads to free and fair elections.
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