True, on the one hand, the prime minister was conducting negotiations far from the spotlight, and refusing to tell the public what was on offer.
Where previously he had a free hand in selecting a prime minister, under the new constitution he has to nominate someone from the largest party in parliament.
"Once this engagement is fulfilled, the prime minister will hand in his mandate to the head of state who will proceed with appropriate consultations, paying close attention to the positions and proposals of all political forces, " he said.
LDP, on the other hand, might produce a caretaker prime minister and an early general election.
It would also be galling to put all that effort into becoming prime minister only to hand over some of the most interesting bits of the job to Brussels.
"I want to pay tribute to the prime minister for the hand I think he played very skilfully at the summit to deliver what many people had told us was not possible, which was a squeeze in turn on the EU budget, " he added.
He is clearly livid that his old enemy, Peter Mandelson, appears restored, albeit informally, to the prime minister's right hand.
Acquired a decade ago by the New York City hedge fund Elliott Associates, Prime has an old oil hand at the helm.
It is being claimed that neither the prime minister's right hand man and spinner -in-chief, Alastair Campbell, or his wife Fiona Millar, who works as Mrs Blair's aide, have fallen out with Mrs Blair over her relationship with either Carole Caplin or Mr Foster.
In 1989, the Pakistani cabinet resigned, giving Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto a free hand to form a new government.
If Mr Aliyev became ill, the amended constitution would allow him to hand the running of the country to the prime minister - who is directly appointed by the president - until elections are called.
The Russian prime minister held Mr Cameron's hand for a cursory second or two before rushing to place a large desk between him and his foreign guest.
D-66, the little left-libertarian party in the country's ruling coalition, briefly upset the governing consensus and caused the country's mild-left prime minister, Wim Kok, to hand in his resignation, was short-lived.
Milan police said Berlusconi's attacker hit him with a small metal souvenir replica of the Doumo di Milano, the city's central cathedral, but it was not immediately clear whether the man swung at the prime minister with the object in his hand or threw it at him.
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Much later, Mr Barak, who sees himself as the murdered Mr Rabin's hand-picked successor, served a truncated term as prime minister from 1999 to 2001 after defeating Mr Netanyahu at the polls and ending his stint as prime minister after three years.
Igor Shuvalov, the first deputy prime minister and Mr Putin's right-hand man, was in London (where his son studies) when Georgia erupted.
Campaigners will hand in a letter to No 10 Downing Street later urging Prime Minister David Cameron to rethink the pace of reforms of exams.
Prime therefore arranged things so that the department could hand back 10% immediately, with an extra 2% to be vacated without penalty in each of the next 15 years.
Iraq's prime minister has given gunmen in Basra three days to hand over their weapons.
George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister, has just played a blindingly good political hand.
It took just a few probing questions about Italy's economy before the dapper prime minister suddenly stood, shook the host's hand and stormed angrily out of the studio.
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The other portrays Mr Brown's hostility to the euro as part of an unrelenting campaign to undermine Mr Blair until the prime minister finally decides to throw in the towel and hand over to Mr Brown.
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Soon after winning the presidency for a second term, President Kumaratunga appeared to extend the hand of friendship to her main challenger, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister who leads the opposition United National Party.
Pakistan, on the other hand, was in election turmoil after Ms. Benazir Bhutto was sacked as prime minister.
Mr Indyk believes the failure of a second stab at a Syrian deal by Ehud Barak, another Israeli prime minister in a hurry, severely weakened Mr Clinton's hand.
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Shula Zaken, Olmert's right-hand woman for 30 years, was suspended last year as head of the prime minister's office amid allegations she appointed her allies to Israel's Tax Authority.
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On Friday evening, 45 Conservative MPs wrote to the prime minister voicing concerns over the planned deal, saying it would hand the bulk of Britain's defence industry to a company which would not safeguard UK interests.
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He chipped a simple return catch to Rashid in the 10th over with 60 needed, but even after his departure the Irish were in prime position with 42 needed from 54 balls and six wickets in hand.
Instead of waiting for the divisions to develop the brand, Hampton has done it himself--convincing the consumer products unit to come out with hand puppets and getting Buena Vista's help in securing Baby Einstein videos prime positions at Wal-Mart.
The United States is preparing possible military operations against Afghanistan because the Taliban have refused to hand over accused terrorist Osama bin Laden, whom President Bush has called the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
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