• Thus, initially at least, he will seek support from other parties on an issue-by-issue basis.

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  • Analysts say her majority of one in the 150-seat lower house of parliament will force Ms Gillard to negotiate issue-by-issue with the opposition Liberals.

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  • The parties are without clear or (especially) consistent policy platforms, defining themselves almost exclusively ( issue-by-issue) in opposition to whatever the ruling or other opposition parties are proposing.

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  • Ms Gillard's Labor Party has the backing of one more MP than the Liberal-led coalition, and analysts say the prime minister will be forced to negotiate issue-by-issue with the opposition.

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  • "We won't be forming a coalition with any of the London parties, but we will be looking at votes in the House of Commons and judging them on an issue-by-issue basis, " he said.

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  • In years past, naked short-selling was dismissed as a non-issue raised by conspiracy-minded people on the fringes of the markets.

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  • Greenpeace claim that the chancellor has been over-influenced on the issue by his father-in-law Lord Howell, who was a government energy minister before climate change was a concern.

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  • D. will be defined - at least by the national media - by one national issue: the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

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  • Whoever his successor may be will have plenty on his plate, from allegations swirling in the Italian media that gay clergy may have made themselves vulnerable to blackmail by male prostitutes -- a claim forcefully denied by the Vatican -- to the festering issue of the church's handling of child abuse by priests.

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  • Abdul Rahman, a Muslim convert to Christianity, narrowly escaped the death penalty for apostasy when the Afghan government -- acting under enormous international pressure -- sidestepped the issue by ruling that he was insane and unfit to stand trial.

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  • The only catch we can see -- aside from the issue of accuracy -- is that by the time these processors actually become available rival Intel may well have seen fit to adjust its own prices.

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  • If he doesn't the name Cameron will be added to those of Wilson, Thatcher and Major - those whose premierships were destroyed by that most toxic issue in politics - Europe.

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  • Now a widespread suspicion is that some in the army are using the Maluku troubles to weaken Wahid - a view bolstered by the uncovering of military-issue weapons during police sweeps in Ambon.

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  • An orderly sale of Italy's state-owned industries and Greece's land holdings would take time, which is no longer available, so the immediate solution to the crisis is to place such hard assets in a euro-zone trust that would then issue euro-zone bonds backed by those assets.

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  • Changes to the exam system have been anticipated by a series of newspaper leaks - an issue raised by the education select committee in questions to Mr Gove.

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  • The president has proposed a multibillion-dollar fee on drug companies by requiring them to issue the federal treasury rebates on prescription drugs consumed by low-income seniors.

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  • Argentines' access to their savings - being rapidly eaten up by inflation - is a highly sensitive issue.

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  • And what kind of -- just on the tick-tock issue, what kind of information -- is he being updated by Justice?

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  • In that same period, France -- where labor costs are a contentious issue -- has seen its costs increase by 4.3%.

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  • The slaughtering issue has risen to the level of an article by two animal-welfare activists in the latest issue of the august quarterly Foreign Affairs.

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  • This is a strategy that former Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified, and the UN Foundation has been thrilled to help the UN on this front by building issue-based grassroots campaigns to involve individuals and groups from all walks of life such as basketball players, bishops, business leaders, students and celebrities in the critical work of the United Nations.

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  • In civil disobedience - which has a very proud tradition that includes Mahatma Gandhi, it includes Dr. King, you know, there's no shortage of examples - part of the concept is that you dramatize an important public issue by sacrificing yourself in some way, whether it - not necessarily, you know, in terms of giving up your life, but in terms of exposing yourself through adverse action by the government.

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  • Thompson's amendment is particularly timely insofar as it comes as the General Accounting Office (GAO) is completing work on a classified report -- also tasked by the senior Senator from Tennessee -- that looks into this issue.

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  • And we will be ill-served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue.

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  • Central to that bill--and others backed by the White House--is the concept of "guaranteed issue, " where everyone gets the same insurance quote, regardless of their medical history.

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  • It is also true -- and this is part of the overall issue here -- that this budget is supported not just by a small group of ideologues within the House of Representatives but broadly by the Republicans in Congress and by virtually all of the contenders for president in the Republican Party.

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  • Clearly, he's interested in the issue but at the same time I felt he was very much re-assured by the prime minister's stance on the issue.

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  • The McCain-Feingold legislation would curb unlimited campaign contributions to political parties and restrain spending by parties and outside groups on so-called "issue ads" that attack candidates by name but escape legal limits by stopping just short of advocating a vote against the candidate.

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  • John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), would curb unlimited campaign contributions to political parties and restrain spending by parties and outside groups on so-called "issue ads" that attack candidates by name, but escape legal limits by stopping just short of advocating a vote against the candidate.

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  • His mother, Judy, would issue branch-by-branch instructions until he reached the ground.

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