The eight British and four American dead were the first coalition casualties of the war against Iraq.
Her husband, in his job as leader of the first coalition government in several decades, spends his life avoiding crumbles and splits.
Fewer still expected the wobbly grouping, now numbering 19 parties, to celebrate its first anniversary in office with a lavish extravaganza - the first coalition in nearly 22 years to last a year in office.
Negotiations this time around are likely to have been especially sensitive as this is the first coalition government for 65 years and both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats want to see their policy priorities reflected in the legislative plan.
The first thing the coalition plans to do is make "dirty" energy more expensive.
If the first grand coalition was a partial success, it was mainly because Karl Schiller, the SPD economics minister, and Franz Josef Strauss, the CSU finance minister, got along well.
The first grand coalition, in 1966-69, worked through quite an impressive legislative agenda: emergency legislation, justice reform and Keynesian demand management (which was all the rage back then).
It can't be seen as a government defeat, since the two parts of the government voted in opposite lobbies - so at the moment they're calling it the first "Coalition Split Vote".
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It will be the first time as coalition partners that the Conservatives and the Lib Dems will have gone head-to-head in a seat which is winnable for both.
Despite ceding more parliamentary seats to the opposition compared with the last general election in 2008, when the Front fell below a two-thirds majority for the first time, the coalition bettered market expectations by securing a solid majority of 133 seats in the 222-member Parliament.
The RDAs were one of the first casualties of the incoming coalition government's spending cuts and its drive against what many Conservatives dismissed as "unaffordable quangos".
The embassy is the first for the Syrian National Coalition, which has been recognized by more than 100 nations as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
In the first incident, coalition troops came under fire from militants carrying rocket-propelled grenades in the Zerok district of Patitka province on Friday, said a statement from the U.S.-led coalition.
The season starts on February 20th in Hamburg, where last year the first state-level coalition between the CDU and the Green party ended prematurely after the failure of an ambitious school reform and the mayor's subsequent resignation.
By striking first with cruise missiles, the coalition took a first step toward gaining control of Libya's airspace.
Now it was America's moment: 1991 saw not only the success of the American-led coalition in the first Gulf war, but also the beginning of serious peace talks.
The first is that the 30% coalition is led by people with undue influence: rich intellectuals, Hollywood types, media folk and university teachers.
The prime minister's official spokesman said it was "not the first time that coalition parties have taken a different approach on important but specific issues".
He will present his findings at a conference in London which has been organised by the University of East Anglia to analyse the first year of coalition government.
The dissidents' resolve may be hardened if they conclude that their party got less from the wily Mr Dewar than a first reading of the coalition text indicated.
But it is important to understand what happened: the 2010-11underspend happened during the coalition's first year.
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The third measure the coalition is targeting was first proposed by the Treasury last year, but it was skewered by the then-Republican-controlled House Small Business Committee.
After all the British government - first Labour, now the Coalition - have been fighting Abu Qatada's lawyers in the courts for 11 years at a cost, some claim, of more than a million pounds.
The (CIL) was proposed in 2008 by the previous government and legislated for by the coalition in their first weeks in power in 2010.
The package of measures was passed in the House of Commons despite the first major backbench rebellion faced by the coalition government.
The economy re-entered recession in the first quarter of this year and the coalition government is looking for ways to encourage growth.
And since this will be the first occasion on which one of the coalition parties has failed to deliver the votes for an agreed part of its programme, he will doubtless feel entitled to demand a price for getting David Cameron off the hook.
The by-election, the first since the general election, is the first major opportunity voters will have had to pass judgement on the coalition's policies as well as Mr Miliband's leadership.
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