And its carve-up of provincial power between the Social Democrats and the People's Party is particularly gross.
The mayor there, Milorad Dodik, is that rare Bosnian specimen, a Serb who opposes an ethnic carve-up of Bosnia.
Poles find the wording infuriating: the Hitler-Stalin carve-up of eastern Europe was a crime, not a mere historical backdrop.
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FSA's boss, hinted that new regulatory rules on with-profits distributions would make it impossible to repeat the Axa carve-up.
Gateshead West - A carve-up of much of the current Blaydon constituency and the western half of the Gateshead seat.
But with a cabinet as factious as Lebanon's, not even this cosy carve-up could keep a lid on controversial programmes.
But New Zealand were awarded host status in a secret vote amid accusations of a carve-up among the sport's major nations.
In the final carve-up, the protocol divided the industrialised countries into eight groups with different targets for reducing their greenhouse gases.
If not, liberalisation could easily turn into an uncompetitive carve-up of the emerging European market by a handful of incumbent oligopolists.
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The worst of all possible outcomes, says one investor, would be a carve-up of Arcelor between Mr Mittal and Mr Mordashov.
About 200 of them are still at the camp seven year later, as the post-Dayton carve-up of Bosnia has left their villages under Serb control.
Indeed, smaller parties complain that the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein operate a system of political carve-up, jointly reaching decisions or deciding what matters to postpone.
Its carrying power is greatly magnified with a carve-up strategy.
The probability remains that, in the coming carve-up, the Republican triumvirate of Perry, Craddick and Dewhurst will get most of what it wants, if only because the Democrats are in a funk.
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Northern factions and tribes who feel themselves left out of the carve-up of government jobs and money tend to express their grievances through kidnappings and bombings instead of more conventional political ways.
Harris and Katherine Skiba at the Chicago Tribune report that it was a one-time payment in reward for the role that she played managing the 10-year carve-up of the Pritzker family fortune.
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To its credit, this government has avoided that particular practice - but a more open approach to scheduling debates, something more than the normal carve-up between government and official opposition, could still produce improvements.
They, and others, are motivated less by racism than by a belief that the established parties of Austria's centre-right and centre-left have been involved for too long in a corrupt carve-up of power and patronage.
The original deal, based on a carve-up going back to the time of Suharto, when Australia was one of the few countries in the world to recognise the occupation of East Timor, was extremely favourable to the Australians.
It would have been more relevant, historically and geographically, to refer to the annexation of the Afghan kingdom to the North-West Frontier Province by the British raj, which happened soon after the casual carve-up of the Ottoman Empire had enraged the Muslim world.
But the agreement - or carve-up, as the Tories see it - between Labour and Lib Dem GLA members to vote the former's Trevor Phillips and the latter's Sally (Baroness) Hamwee as alternating chair and deputy chair of the assembly will give the party more of a high-profile position.
You know how it goes: because of various loopholes and carve-outs that have built up over the years, some industries pay an average rate that is four or five times higher than others.
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Sadly Commissioner Kroes is repeating the classic socialist mistake of being so eager to carve up and re-distribute the last piece of pie in the tin that she forgets that someone has to have the incentive to produce and pay for the next pie, if good pie is to remain available in the future.
But at both the parliamentary elections held since then, the government of the day has announced a one-off exception and proceeded to carve up the country as it chose.
Even tougher may be to get Republicans to give up those popular deductions and carve-outs that many in the middle class and Chamber of Commerce have come to regard as rights.
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In September Iraq's political leaders agreed to post-pone until 2008 any moves to "carve up" the country into autonomous states.
Mr Mugabe described Libya as "well-developed but autocratic" but concluded that "Nato terrorists" had bombed the country back by a century in order to carve up its oil assets at a "mini-Berlin conference".
Boyd did carve out an opening, scuffing an effort against the bar after a link-up between Paul Hartley and Miller.
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They managed to carve out a number of chances through Emile Heskey - back in the starting line-up for the first time since breaking his foot.
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