Given the uncertainty with French banks, Sarkozy is a junior partner in this situation.
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Although the London Stock Exchange might once have been snooty about joining a continental exchange as a junior partner, times have changed.
Last week in London, John Schiller of Energy XXI, a junior partner in the well, said that they were back below 30, 000 feet.
The ambitions of these two men, one the ruler of his country, the other a junior partner in a team of English soldier-adventurers, soon intersected.
In May, Pao, a junior partner at Kleiner Perkins sued the firm, charging gender discrimination and harassment, citing discrimination in advancement and compensation at the firm.
Pao filed a lawsuit against the renowned venture capital firm where she is a junior partner in May, alleging that she was discriminated against for advancement and compensation.
He is likely to stay on as the province's governor, though he could still cause trouble in Vienna, where his party is a junior partner in Austria's coalition government.
Those resources have been stretched to the snapping point by the IMF's having to jump in as a junior partner in the EU's loans to the euro zone's weaker states.
But the truth is that even Britain, with one of the world's most efficient armies, and a prime minister happy to use it, will be a junior partner in an American-led show.
Today a junior partner may get as much as 1.5%, an associate 1% -- still less than senior partners, who make 4% to 7%, but more than they got three years ago.
Yet there is no obvious coalition partner for Mr Samaras apart from the right-wing Laos (People's) party under George Karatzaferis, now enjoying its first taste of power as a junior partner in Mr Papademos's government.
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But Nokia was always going to have to accept the role as a junior partner when they paired up with Microsoft at the start of 2011, a position that Nokia is historically not used to.
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Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.
That could make it a possible junior partner in a coalition bringing an unprecedented level of influence in the Irish republic.
"Senior partners are doing less work and the younger guys are picking up the slack, " says a 30-year-old junior partner at a Silicon Valley firm.
Whether he succeeds may well determine if Southcorp will be a junior or senior partner in the Australia-California wine dance.
Being the junior partner in a moderate government had weakened the appeal of Mr Haider's party to its core constituency, disgruntled blue-collar workers and others, such as small farmers and shopkeepers, who feel threatened by modernisation.
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In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Mr. Clegg is a member of the Liberal Democrat party, the junior partner in the Conservative Party-led governing coalition.
Much of the pressure for the stimulus package came from the LDP's junior coalition partner, New Komeito, a Buddhist-affiliated party which hitherto has played an insignificant role.
Yet rumours that the government was contemplating a Eurobond drew rebukes from the Free Democrats, the junior partner in the coalition.
The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition government, is against a rescue, as are many politicians from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
He leads the conservative People's Party, the junior partner with Mr Klima's Social Democrat Party in a coalition government.
The Free Democrats, the junior partner in Angela Merkel's coalition government, were trounced in a state election in Berlin.
Its popularity has plunged since it won a record 15% of the vote in the 2009 federal election and joined the coalition as junior partner to Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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