The besiegers have shied from all-out assaults, for fear of killing civilians and deepening regional enmities.
His biggest asset is that he is new, personable, and unencumbered by Mr Sarrazin's enmities.
In the mean time, Fleet Street's long-standing enmities are helping the canniest readers build extensive DVD libraries.
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Amazingly enough, the earthquake seemed to bury, at least temporarily, some of the region's most ancient enmities.
"It wasn't simply a healing of a fragmented, fractured, divided nation filled with enmities and fears and arrogance, " he says.
But Mullah Nazir's focus was not solely on balancing the enmities and loyalties of the various militant networks in the region.
In part, by being much more pragmatic about alliances and technological combinations than was Mr McNealy, who harboured emotional enmities with rivals.
The outcome is a movie so desperate to provoke comparisons with the religious enmities of today that it somehow forgets the fire in its own belly.
But the two countries have buried ancient enmities, and the prevailing view in France is that the relationship should nowadays be pragmatic and based firmly on realpolitik.
Much of the voting reflected ancient alliances and enmities, rather than the merits of the tunes (for example, Greece and Cyprus gave each other top marks, as usual).
As decision-making under Henry drifted, factions formed and enmities deepened.
Fortunately for him, several years later a shift in clan enmities and alliances ended the whole cycle of revenge killings and united both clans against a common enemy, a neighboring tribe.
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