The more Mr Ozawa bossed his party, the more popular opinion wanted him out.
The more Mr Sarkozy adopts a populist tone and agitated manner, the more Mr de Villepin is likely to cultivate a quietly authoritative style.
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The more Mr McCain brings independents into the Republican primary, the more he deprives Mr Bradley of votes in the Democratic primary (and vice versa).
The more Mr Sarkozy shores up domestic support with a hard line on security and immigration, the more he runs the risk of renewed disapproval abroad.
If both the more pious Mr Romney and the more secular Mr Huntsman, who have been personal rivals in the past, run in the primaries, their Mormonism will become an issue again.
Mr Prodi likes primaries more than Mr Berlusconi because he is more confident of winning.
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But Mr Kerry, even more than Mr Bush, has reason to fear the trap of ideological labels.
Both are centrists, though Mr Firestone will win more liberal votes and Mr Steel more votes of the religious right.
Since he took office, Mr Morsi has done more than Mr Mubarak did to stem the flow of goods (including arms) through the tunnels that connect Gaza and Sinai and that supplied the enclave during the siege Israel imposed after Hamas took over the strip in 2007.
In April this year, under international pressure, Mr Arafat appointed the more moderate Mr Abbas as prime minister and, in June, President George Bush got Mr Sharon and Mr Abbas to shake hands on the road map, a peace plan drawn up by America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which envisages an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
Whereas the secretary of state was locked in tussle after tussle with the likes of Mr Rumsfeld, she was more like Mr Bush's referee.
What was not known was that Mr Fastow's recollections over time became more hostile to Mr Skilling and more helpful to the government.
The more that Mr Putin consolidates power, the more he becomes the only person to blame when things go wrong.
Within Turkey's government, however, Mr Ecevit is balanced by the more pacific Mr Yilmaz and Ismail Cem, the foreign minister.
On the right, Mr Katzav's victory, and more particularly Mr Peres's defeat, is seen as auguring the end of those efforts.
For a start, Mr Kohl does not get on nearly as well with the volatile Mr Chirac as he did with the more calculating Mr Mitterrand.
Matthew Davis, a San Diego scientist, is leaning toward Mr. Obama but wants to learn more about Mr. Romney's plans to cut tax rates and limit deductions.
Indeed, polls suggest the French rate Mr Sarkozy more highly than Mr Hollande for most traits to do with leadership.
The more banks Mr Lerach can persuade to drop these agreements, the more money he will make.
Though they tend to be minorities within broader political groupings, together they scooped up about a third of the vote in last month's elections to the European Parliament, with Mr Pasqua's lot unexpectedly winning 13%, a shade more than Mr Chirac's own mainstream Gaullists.
Some analysts said they believe Mr. Rehman could have cut a deal with Islamabad, leaving the faction around the more extreme Mr. Hakimullah isolated.
Mr Aso, more hawkish than Mr Fukuda, is congenial and fairly popular, having worked the party's grass-roots organisations.
And are people going to be listening more to Mr. Bush or Mr. Kerry?
What is more, Mr Olmert's political rivals are keeping their knives sheathed for now.
Much more than Mr. Zuckerberg at Facebook, or the leaders of Groupon and Netflix (for example).
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That is more than Mr Glazer could afford, even with his existing 19% stake.
But they will now want more than Mr Jospin's usual lip-service to their environmental concerns.
Germany awoke to such problems a decade or more before Mr Sarrazin's screed appeared.
As the primaries draw near, will voters learn more about Mr Giuliani and reject him?
What is more, Mr Obama's rise has coincided with a softening of American exceptionalism.
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