If Mr Bondevik's shaky partnership collapses after a few weeks, Labour, which refuses to build coalitions, could be back.

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The time to build coalitions is before you are stripped bare of your garments and the vultures are circling overhead.

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We should still expect them to adapt to the changed circumstances of power to build coalitions, public and private, to achieve results.

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And so we must defeat determined enemies, wherever they are, and build coalitions that cut across lines of region and race and religion.

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None of these requires the mayor of London to have more powers, only the political will combined with a capacity to build coalitions with other layers of government.

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If they want to make laws, they're going to have to work with the moderate Republicans and try to build some coalitions with the conservatives in the Senate.

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For the past several decades, I have worked tirelessly to build diverse coalitions and to unite diverse leaders in Baltimore, New York, Hartford, and Pittsburgh to advocate for education reform and equity.

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The history of warfare shows that while demonization can build and maintain alliances and coalitions, and is important to maintain national unity in a protracted conflict, it can inadvertently aid the enemy's own war aims.

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But as with all prevention focused coalitions they also strengthen family and build resiliency and self-reliance for a community.

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