So far General Anupong is backing Mr Samak, who shrewdly built bridges with the army chief.
With such a chasm between the two sides, Mr Arafat is in urgent need of American-built bridges.
Throughout his career, he has built bridges of friendship between the Arab world, the West and particularly Portugal.
Like his fellow Foreign Service officers, he built bridges across oceans and cultures, and was deeply invested in the international cooperation that the United Nations represents.
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Such sentiments are said to have made Sir Peter a close ally of Baroness Thatcher - the pair having built bridges through the common cause of Europe.
Of immigrant descent (with an Irish grandfather and a Spanish mother), he is a Jesuit-educated Catholic, a man who in a different country would be a Christian Democrat, but who has built bridges to the left with some populist touches.
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She built bridges within the ranks.
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The Fu and the Nan were dredged, dikes were built, 24 bridges were built or renovated and 12 new wharves were added.
We have built thousands of bridges.
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Most of the nation's highways and bridges were built in the 1950s and '60s.
The minister said she wanted to see bridges being built between schools and universities.
Most of the road's bridges were built in the early 20th century.
Right now, at least six new bridges are being built over the Nile Rivers.
And these bridges must be built by young men and women just like you and your counterparts in America.
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When most of us think of infrastructure, we think of the built environment: roads, bridges, airports, power plants, cell phone towers, storm drains.
Roads and bridges will be built (not least to help the new crops to market), electricity installed, schools and other infrastructure put in place, to help farm families break the coca habit.
Having built all the roads, bridges, tunnels, harbours, airports, schools, hospitals and city halls that the country is ever likely to need, so desperate have the construction companies become to find new places to pour their concrete that they have taken to paving over the river beds and beaches.
But what always impresses me about Cambridge is the sense that all kinds of bridges are now being built between world-class science in the university and the commercial world.
Experts say the roads, bridges, and dams built by Chinese firms are low cost, good quality and completed in a fraction of the time such projects usually take in Africa.
New platforms and foot bridges have also been built.
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They understand that just as we invest in maintaining our critical human-built infrastructure, whether roads, bridges, power plants, or orbiting satellites, so too must we be vigilant in safeguarding natural infrastructure to avoid crippling costs down the road.
Another Cardiff firm, Bluebay Building Products supplied reinforced concrete for the bridges and highways being built on the Olympic Park, while Rhino Doors from Port Talbot won a contract at the start of the project for entrance doors for the power lines tunnelling project.
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White buses drop workers off at the export companies and cargo trucks line up to cross the bridges that straddle the concrete canal built to direct the flow of the Rio Grande River.
Mr Edwards, who is on the games organising committee, said one of the bridges at the Olympic park was being built by Lagan Construction from Northern Ireland and displayed a London Olympics bag made by Ulster Weavers.
Some of it is not as visible as bridges, some of it is water systems, pipes underground that essentially were built back in the 1930s -- in some cases even older than that.
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Out of Los Angeles and Oakland, it's highway gridlock, merely the beginning of a trucking nightmare that extends into much of the U.S. Not only are few roads being built in urban locales, and congestion pricing that would free up existing capacity being blocked, but neglected bridges and tunnels portend more Minneapolis-like calamities.
And we're putting Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, schools and waterways with the largest investment in our infrastructure since the Interstate Highway System was built in the 1950s.
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