But many delegates said they don't feel overwhelmed or unnerved by the omnipresent security.
The backlash came after Mr Brown did what many delegates believe he does best - borrowing Tory ideas.
"Mahathir's talk about scarves and beards surprised and confused many delegates, " said Nazri.
Many delegates saw their influence in the sidelining of the popular former king.
In any case, Mr Karzai's new cabinet looks more like a shuffling of his old one than the transformation many delegates wanted.
The need for political cohesion around a drive for austerity was common to many delegates' views, as was a desire for closer fiscal union.
That aside, our calculator provides a reasonable approximation of how many delegates each candidate will win, based on your estimate of the popular vote in that state.
But it's worth noting that many delegates from Pakistan's tribal belt, Waziristan, which is the epicenter of some of the problems in that conflict, have also boycotted this event.
Many delegates suffered traffic delays, and the authorities had to step in after the travel agency which won a tender to arrange hotel bookings offered room-rates up to five times higher than usual.
"Although the next several states that hold nominating contests this month are more favorable to the Obama campaign, we will continue to compete in them and hope to secure as many delegates as we can before the race turns to Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, " read a statement from the Clinton campaign.
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Or Somalia, whose chair I borrowed for the final Doha plenary because many African delegates could not afford to postpone their flights.
This means that while the delegation is committed to support a candidate for a certain number of ballots, many individual delegates remain loyal to other candidates.
Many of the delegates, having fought hard to earn a place at the table, would agree with Mr Massoum.
But many of the delegates spent their time cowering in the conference centre.
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The conference itself is a very dark-suited middle-aged male affair, with many of the delegates coming from the security industry.
The International Roma Union tries to redress that problem by speaking on the gypsies' behalf, but many of the delegates themselves are unelected.
The Democrats award delegates based on a proportion of the vote, and Tuesday's primaries and caucuses were less decisive than in the Republican races, where many states awarded delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
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If the Swiss can live with four languages, if they can withstand the diversity of a federal system that delegates many powers to the cantonal level, we dare say it can afford more than one corporate-governance model too.
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Miles of roads, including part of one interstate, around the convention site have been closed, thousands of security personnel -- many armed -- patrol the site, helicopters hover overhead, checkpoints dot the perimeter of the FleetCenter, and police cars are stationed at the many hotels housing delegates.
The Governing Council members have also nominated their followers as delegates for many of the 440 seats at the conference that were not chosen by caucuses.
Delegates from many larger states arguing the plan would have given rival Democrats a head start by allowing them to select their nominee well before Republicans.
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Thus lacking credibility in the eyes of many Indonesians, the delegates plainly needed to unveil a radical package that would clear away the stench of the old order.
Even many U.N. delegates and gun control activists believe this process was put on hold due to presidential campaign concerns.
Obama supporters argue that their candidate has won so many more states and pledged delegates than Clinton that superdelegates should close ranks behind him so he can focus on beating the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain.
He says the Board is made up of delegates from synagogues and community organisations, yet many of Britain's 300, 000 Jews are not members of such groups. had married non-Jews.
American Express, British Airways, General Electric, H-P, PepsiCo, Puma and Unilever, among many other international businesses, are involved in sponsoring and supporting delegates from around the world to take part in One Young World 2011.
Environment Program, said the negotiations by delegates to three major environmental treaties reflected awareness that many of the 100, 000 chemicals used by industry or agriculture, or sold in commercial products, still haven't been tested for their effects on people and nature.
Many attendees say the move is highly significant because it is the first time that Cites delegates have voted to protect a commercially valuable species of shark.
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