MPs from voting against their party leader, in effect preventing an in-house change of regime.
The humanitarian problems illustrate the political problem in Zimbabwe, where a power-sharing agreement signed in September between President Robert Mugabe of the ruling ZANU-PF party and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has yet to take effect.
Mr Barak, the leader of the Labor Party, in effect acts as foreign minister for the peace talks while the man who holds the title, Avigdor Lieberman, has threatened to quit the government if the prime minister gives too much ground.
Add this to the fact that Mr Daschle is now in effect the Democratic Party's leader, and the case is strengthened that the anthrax attacks are the work of a home-grown right-wing nutcase, rather than a global Islamic terrorist network.
"It's very, very important both from a realistic standpoint and also from perception that this is a stock, this is a company that is a leader, " Mr Kessler says, adding that when a leader falls, it has a definite domino effect.
Study leader Dana King said he was surprised that the effect was so large and so quick.
It is not entirely fanciful to speculate that the people of Winchester could in effect start a process which destroys one party leader or another, which makes the by-election one of Professor Crewe's boulders.
Opposition labour leader Anne Western said councillors were "in denial" about the effect of savings on frontline services.
Abilify's side-effect profile is a thorn in the side of market leader Zyprexa, from Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ).
In 2002, there were attempts by the president, Mr Ouattara and the former military leader, Robert Guei to calm things down but this had little effect.
Newport council leader Bob Bright said the expansion and extra jobs could "only have a positive effect on the city".
Those who described that leader as visionary indicated that they were more effective, inspiring, and able to effect change than those who had a representative boss.
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He wants Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrats' leader, to be able to use the Scottish party's experience of government to good effect at the next British general election.
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