We do not know if the mainstream Fatah movement will be forced to form a governing coalition with the more radical (and often rejectionist) Hamas movement.

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That movement has forced other changes.

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Correspondents said there had been speculation he would be forced aside by the militant movement's powerful leaders in the Gaza Strip.

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One of the most powerful union leaders at a time that unions wielded a great deal of sway over elections -- and were notoriously tied to organized crime -- Hoffa was forced out of the organized labor movement when he was sent to prison in 1967.

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Yet later that day Mr Papandreou (pictured, above, with President Karolos Papoulias) was forced to withdraw Mr Petsalnikos's candidacy amid a threatened rebellion by backbenchers in his Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok).

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Taylor was forced into exile in Nigeria in 2003 after the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd) rebel movement laid siege to Monrovia.

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