He made plans for a grand leaving party, and then cancelled it.
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By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.
His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.
At Cana, her son is like a stranger, "oddly formal and grand, " who seems to perform a wine-based party trick in front of drunks.
So far Bersani has resisted Berlusconi's overtures for a "grand coalition" with his own party, which combines heirs of Italy's former Communists with more centrist forces.
Considering that women make up more than half of the electorate and more than half the voters, it is amazing that the Republicans have taken a path toward really being the Grand OLD Party.
Mr Kim blames the opposition Grand National Party, which holds a majority in the assembly, for slowing down the pace of reform.
After the 2008 poll he took the post of first deputy prime minister in a grand coalition with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party election-winners.
Enrico Letta's new "grand coalition" government - a hybrid mixture of party bigwigs, technical experts, and an unusually high number of women ministers - has been sworn in at Rome's presidential palace and is expected to get an early confidence vote in parliament.
Other automakers may have beaten Audi to the supersized-SUV party, but this late arrival makes a grand entrance.
On Oct. 8, the day Megawati opened the congress before tens of thousands of red-clad supporters on a blistering field in the beach resort of Sanur, Bali helped pull off exactly what the PDI team wanted: a grand political spectacle to punctuate Megawati's transformation from party outcast to presidential contender.
Before this month's Chinese Grand Prix the FIA announced a tender for "a third-party supplier of engines and transmission systems" to be used by all teams in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
When Cantor was aligning himself with the Tea Party right, and Boehner was trying to reach a Grand Bargain with the White House, Boehner deputized Cantor to enter into budget negotiations with Vice-President Joe Biden.
Carter is one of 17 players in the current squad who also featured on the last grand slam tour in 2005, only the second time a New Zealand party had beaten England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the same tour, following the successful 1978 All Blacks.
There is talk of a joint democracy campaign by Mr Sharif's party and the 17-party Grand Democratic Alliance.
Without this regional party, Handelsblatt, a business daily, wrote last week, the grand coalition would have had a more successful first year.
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As the game wore on the visitors enjoyed increasing possession but they rarely threatened to score and their Grand Slam hopes had disappeared long before the final whistle sounded to spark a party in Dublin.
The voters showed political independence and a willingness to make judgments apart from party, but it's impossible to draw grand conclusions about ideology, Al Gore, control of Congress or HMO reform from these outcomes.
The indictment, from a grand jury in White Plains, alleges Smith schemed with New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran to bribe Republican party leaders.
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