Many Cameroonians were highly critical of Milla, saying it was a back-stabbing move against his compatriot.

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Meanwhile, disillusioned Ukrainians fear that the new government will be as preoccupied with nest-feathering and back-stabbing as the old one.

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Yet the coalition has made little effort to attack corruption, and has wasted energy on bickering and back-stabbing, messily dismissing one would-be reforming prime minister, Radu Vasile, from its own ranks last December.

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In between all the plotting and back-stabbing, the characters blunder into a broad array of financial- and estate-planning disasters, from bad investments and messy trusts to poor business-succession plans and power struggles following health crises.

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That rancour schooled a generation of politicians in the arts of anonymous briefing and back-stabbing methods now publicly disavowed by some who specialise in them but already being transferred to the incipient struggle to succeed Mr Brown as Labour leader.

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But Halliwell also admitted how he had killed Sian - by stabbing her in the back of the head.

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Rubio talks about putting a Band-Aid on the patient's little finger, while silently stabbing him in the back.

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