They include free-market liberals, xenophobic nationalists, and those who hanker for the era before 2003.

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But he seemed to hanker for the days when Mr Olmert, now mired in accusations of corruption, was in office.

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But some of the guests find the atmosphere more than a tad sepulchral, and hanker for the hotel's crumbling past.

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Conservatives openly hanker for a minority government able to pass, or at least propose proper Tory measures - pure fantasy, in my view.

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And I think they - they hanker for, you know, some simplicity, some real basic honest human emotions, and that would sort of cover the general spirit in which I write songs.

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While the Peronists hanker for a deal with the conservative wing of the government, Domingo Cavallo and Gustavo Beliz, former Menem ministers who have formed their own grouping, have praised Mr Alvarez's stand against old-fashioned pork-barrel politics and evidently believe they could work with the modernising wing of the Alliance.

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Though he has stood only once (unsuccessfully) for elected office, he is young at 52, and may well hanker after a top job, one day, in government.

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