But many delegates said they don't feel overwhelmed or unnerved by the omnipresent security.
The backlash came after Mr Brown did what many delegates believe he does best - borrowing Tory ideas.
"Mahathir's talk about scarves and beards surprised and confused many delegates, " said Nazri.
Many delegates saw their influence in the sidelining of the popular former king.
Though this has yet to happen at national level, many delegates in Beijing are keen to see a more accountable government.
It said this view was shared by many delegates at the city legislature's annual meeting in January, and ran some indignant-sounding quotes.
In any case, Mr Karzai's new cabinet looks more like a shuffling of his old one than the transformation many delegates wanted.
The question on many delegates' minds was whether the smear campaign against Anwar could hobble his chances of succeeding Mahathir as prime minister.
The need for political cohesion around a drive for austerity was common to many delegates' views, as was a desire for closer fiscal union.
These will make future conferences much easier for the party leadership to control, and had been criticised by many delegates from the constituency parties.
The party convention that nominated him in January as its presidential candidate was boycotted by many delegates, and several of his own ministers oppose his re-election.
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But it's worth noting that many delegates from Pakistan's tribal belt, Waziristan, which is the epicenter of some of the problems in that conflict, have also boycotted this event.
Many delegates suffered traffic delays, and the authorities had to step in after the travel agency which won a tender to arrange hotel bookings offered room-rates up to five times higher than usual.
"Although the next several states that hold nominating contests this month are more favorable to the Obama campaign, we will continue to compete in them and hope to secure as many delegates as we can before the race turns to Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, " read a statement from the Clinton campaign.
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Many Pushtun delegates, when interviewed in a quiet corner, revealed reservations about Mr Karzai.
Or Somalia, whose chair I borrowed for the final Doha plenary because many African delegates could not afford to postpone their flights.
This means that while the delegation is committed to support a candidate for a certain number of ballots, many individual delegates remain loyal to other candidates.
Many of the delegates, having fought hard to earn a place at the table, would agree with Mr Massoum.
But many of the delegates spent their time cowering in the conference centre.
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The conference itself is a very dark-suited middle-aged male affair, with many of the delegates coming from the security industry.
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The Democrats award delegates based on a proportion of the vote, and Tuesday's primaries and caucuses were less decisive than in the Republican races, where many states awarded delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
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If the Swiss can live with four languages, if they can withstand the diversity of a federal system that delegates many powers to the cantonal level, we dare say it can afford more than one corporate-governance model too.
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Miles of roads, including part of one interstate, around the convention site have been closed, thousands of security personnel -- many armed -- patrol the site, helicopters hover overhead, checkpoints dot the perimeter of the FleetCenter, and police cars are stationed at the many hotels housing delegates.
The Governing Council members have also nominated their followers as delegates for many of the 440 seats at the conference that were not chosen by caucuses.
Delegates from many larger states arguing the plan would have given rival Democrats a head start by allowing them to select their nominee well before Republicans.
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Thus lacking credibility in the eyes of many Indonesians, the delegates plainly needed to unveil a radical package that would clear away the stench of the old order.
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