The small nationalist parties from Catalonia, the Basque country and elsewhere hold the balance of power.
More importantly, they may well hold the balance of power in the next Parliament.
Yet the drug-financed warlords who hold the balance of power are still rooted in the tribal system.
But his position requires him to hold the balance in his coalition between moderates, the ex-Communists and still-Communists.
But it also means that narrow interest groups hold the balance of power.
PCS. This, the Socialist Alliance triumphantly proclaims on its website, has enabled the Trotskyites to hold the balance of power.
At that level, the party might even hold the balance of power at the next general election, due by 2007.
One is that the outcome may turn out to lie with the armed forces, if they hold the balance of power.
They want to keep on good terms with a party which, even in its diminished state, could yet hold the balance of power in 2015.
Populist regional parties hold the balance of power in parliament.
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Her party plans to field candidates in marginal federal constituencies, and she claims to have enough support to hold the balance of power in Canberra after the general election.
The common message among these extremist parties, which now appear to hold the balance of power in Athens, is that Greeks should take no more austerity-diktats from Brussels and Berlin.
However, Mr Paisley has predicted that the DUP will hold the balance of unionist power in the assembly and that his party will therefore have the power to block any such move.
True, he was helped by Mr Brown's often surreal efforts to ingratiate himself with the Lib Dem leader (his party could, after all, hold the balance of power in a hung parliament).
Labour councillors are few in number on Somerset council, but their deputy leader, Andrew Govier, hopes that might mean he and his colleagues will hold the balance of power after the election.
By forging a united front, the Kurds will bolster their strength in the national assembly in Baghdad (where they may even hold the balance) and secure a key spot in Iraq's post-election constitutional debate.
Just as the cross-community Alliance holds the balance of power in Belfast City Council, across Northern Ireland as a whole those defining themselves as "Northern Irish" hold the balance, as explained elsewhere on this website.
If it can keep up its momentum opinion polls suggest that a fifth of the voters already back it and if the right does not implode completely, it might hold the balance of power in a new parliament.
When Spain became a democracy after General Franco's death in 1975, the Basques (and Catalans) got a big dose of autonomy and got even more this decade, when regional parties began to hold the balance of power in the parliament in Madrid.
Whoever wins will lack a majority in Congress, in which the grip of the two traditional parties has been challenged not just by Mr Solis (who will hold the balance of power) but also by a free-market party (which captured six of the 57 seats).
In the upper house of the New South Wales parliament, for instance, he claims to hold what he calls "the balance of prayer".
It's a similar dynamic to what is happening with Wall Street banks that committed to fund leveraged buyouts, only to have trouble selling those loans in the syndicated loan market--they have to hold them on balance sheet until the credit markets come back to life.
The banks arranging the Chrysler and Alliance loan packages have decided to hold them on balance sheet and wait until the fall to see if investors are willing to jump back into the loan market.
Of course, investment banks have a lot to lose in the credit crunch, not only in lost income from loans they are forced to hold on balance sheets, but from the fees they make to arrange new debt financings.
Taxpayers can better hold recipients accountable and balance the burdens against benefits of handouts at the state or local level.
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As I pointed out in the post, Apple, Microsoft and Cisco all have huge cash positions outside the country: each of them, in fact, hold the vast majority of their balance sheet cash in foreign accounts.
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His hold on the job was in the balance at the start of 2007, after some poor results, but his stock has soared recently and several media sources have named him as a potential candidate for the post of Australia coach.
Banks are trying to shrink the loans and investments on their balance sheets, relative to the capital they hold as protection against losses.
Regulators say holding back a small amount of customer cash would decrease the amount of capital that firms would have to hold in reserve and compare the idea to a minimum account balance required by banks.
It even has great balance so you can hold the phone steady when you're takin pictures with the camera, which is one of those rotating jobbies at the top left of the face.
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