Lim's jail term means that, barring a royal pardon, he cannot run for Parliament for the next five years.

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Mr Obama, meanwhile, has expressed hope that Republican resistance to his proposals will be slightly less reflexive if he is re-elected, on the ground that he cannot run for president again, and so presents a less tempting target.

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Leading candidates assert that they will be responsible stewards, unlike the firebrand Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because he is limited to two terms.

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Girls, he says, run away because their parents cannot afford dowries to get them married, and they don't want to be a burden to their families anymore.

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"You cannot run a country through Skype, " he quipped.

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The principle he seeks to uphold is that the schools run by the Shas party, another coalition partner, cannot get more money from his ministry unless they institute rigorous administrative reforms.

ECONOMIST: Israel