Some of his critics suggested that the plot had in fact been fabricated to mask power struggles between the ruling elite's fractious clans: the president's father and predecessor as strongman, Haidar Aliev, constantly accused potential rivals of such plots during his three decades in power.
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The region's fractious geography has raised concerns in the U.S. and elsewhere about the stability of some of the world's more important shipping routes, as the Obama administration continues its diplomatic pivot back to Asia.
Mrs Gregoire has even waded into Seattle politics, pressuring the city's fractious city council and Greg Nickels Seattle's big, blunt-talking Democratic mayor, who towers over the small, slim governor to agree on a plan to replace the 53-year-old elevated motorway along the Seattle waterfront, which looks horrible and is vulnerable to earthquakes.
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Chile's fractious right has managed to unite behind Joaquin Lavin, the mayor of Santiago's prosperous Las Condes district and a fan of General Pinochet (not that he has wanted to play that up recently).
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.
Oil has covered up mistakes by the government, and by the country's fractious politicians.
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.
The GAO, however, found Iraq had spent only 7 percent of that budget by November 2007, and the proposed oil law has stalled in the country's fractious parliament.
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).
Its decision to return to parliament eases a major political crisis for Shia Muslim Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, clearing the way for talks among Iraq's fractious Shia, Kurdish and Sunni blocs.
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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.
The Kosovo crisis has provoked a rare display of unity among Russia's usually fractious political elite, with ministers and lawmakers across the spectrum opposing the use of force against Belgrade over its refusal to grant autonomy to Kosovo.
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.
Mr Biti is a member of the Movement of Democratic Change (MDC), which is in a fractious coalition with Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
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.
But the fractious and divisive nature of the country's politics was exposed once again, when major parties failed to close ranks even when dealing with an issue as emotive as trials of war crimes.
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.
Following regional negotiations led by South Africa, President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party entered into a fractious coalition with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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The trouble is that we and our sometimes fractious African allies in any effort to end Kony's reign-of-terror may or may not be able rapidly to achieve the stated goal, or at least do so with so few American troops.
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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.
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