Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
Egypt, along with the semi-autonomous government of South Sudan, has tried to bring Darfur's fractious rebels together to create a joint platform.
The fertile and fractious U.S. scene in the genre known as black metal can be understood through a familiar moment in rock history.
Parties in Macedonia's fractious coalition government started a two-day summit in parliament in Skopje to work on details of a deal to end the insurgency.
It could also add to the tensions within Mr Cardoso's fractious coalition (which almost came to blows this week over the choice of a new chief of the federal police).
Egypt's fractious liberals are deeply sceptical of the military, but may revert to accepting a further dose of military dictatorship to stave off the Islamist tide, at least for a while.
As well as squeezing Mr Milosevic, the monitors are desperately trying to prevail on Kosovo's fractious ethnic Albanians not to take military action of a sort that would be bound to provoke a disproportionate Serb retaliation.
This "would raise the political costs of the French bombing campaign, dragging the intervention into urban warfare that neither France, the U.S. nor Algeria would be willing to lead with boots on the ground, and leaving Mali's fractious military exposed, " according to Phillippe de Pontet of Eurasia Group.
Even by the standards of Israel's volatile and fractious democracy, this was a colossal gamble.
But there are bumpy months ahead for Mr Zapatero, as Spain's two most fractious regions engage in rough horse-trading over their future relationship with Madrid.
The recent carnage coincides with an emerging political crisis in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, which faces an increasingly fractious legislature as Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs increasingly seem at odds.
In 1893 Chicago held a huge fair, the World's Columbian Exposition, ostensibly to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas but in reality to bind together the city's squabbling immigrants and fractious social groups with a bit of cultural adhesive.
Indeed, Mr Wahid's own government is so fractious that the sacking of General Wiranto may yet be seen as the least of his worries.
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Mr Major's job of holding together a fractious cabinet on a vanishing majority was made much harder by his being constantly caricatured as a dithering wimp.
Long after his retirement, Mr. Mandela's continued imprimatur as a sort of father-of-the-nation helps to bind his increasingly fractious party, especially from challenges from its left wing, as the country's socioeconomic inequality rises.
The Scot's relationship with the media became increasingly fractious and he walked out of several post-match interviews towards the end of the season.
Such is the current fluidity of the political scene, however, that it is not immediately clear whether the CWC's defection is definitive, or whether the incident is simply a temporary falling-out of the kind that is all too likely given the fractious and increasingly unwieldy state of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) coalition.
In the past, the real question has always been who will be chosen by Algeria's kingmakers, also known as le pouvoir, a fractious clique of senior army officers who like to govern from the shadows.
Since mid-1996, when Mr Klaus's lot won a general election obliging him to run an unwieldy and fractious coalition government without a majority in parliament, the country has drifted.
These interviews, which served as the basis of Mr. Spiegelman's research for "Maus, " were the only time when the fractious relationship between father and son could abate for a while.
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In a fractious affair, Hull were hurrying and scurrying around Craven Cottage breaking up Fulham's play, while the home side had a calmer front as they tried to work an opening.
In contrast, the Labour group has become increasingly fractious and rebellious, a discord which is in danger of intensifying with Mr Dewar's incapacity.
His problem is that he runs a fractious minority government, which relies on the votes of 22 deputies from Mr Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia.
The Dutch, who are among the world's most egalitarian nations, have a monarchy that unites a country with a fractious history as shown by the huge support it receives in opinion polls.
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This week's attacks coincide with an emerging political crisis in Iraq, which faces an increasingly fractious legislature as Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political blocs increasingly seem at odds.
I'm told one MP has put down 166 amendments to the chair's draft of the report - and every nuance is fought out in the increasingly fractious private sessions in which the MPs on the committee attempt to finalise their conclusions.
What's at stake is the credibility of the United States in keeping a forward momentum in the often fractious and politically fraught movement for worldwide trade liberalization.
But the normally fractious Ethiopians have now united around him, and his party is likely to have done well at this week's election.
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