His rough ideas for the layout were accepted, and then politics and horse-trading took over.
Political horse-trading is continuing in councils across Wales after Labour lost control of several local authorities.
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That it will be as prone as ever to horse-trading almost goes without saying.
He contributed little to the last-minute horse-trading over the Amsterdam treaty the successor to Maastricht last June.
In the convention's final days, a frenzy of horse-trading produced four hybrid republican models.
And in the other areas of farm trade such as export subsidies and domestic support the horse-trading has barely started.
In order to cut this to some 35-40%, the states and the federal government have done some horse-trading.
And regrettably, a rigorous, open and impartial assessment of the candidates is less likely than backroom political horse-trading.
Its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was so damaged by the horse-trading over earlier presidential candidates that he said he would resign.
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The prospect, therefore, after some tortuous post-election horse-trading, is for a fragile coalition, with its many components pulling in different directions.
That process will start on April 15 with the nomination of candidates, a step subject to a fair amount of backroom horse-trading.
The covert horse-trading is what irks many Kyrgyzstanis about their new form of government, which promised to be more open and transparent.
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So the bigwigs left it to more junior negotiators to present the result of their horse-trading to the world's grumpy, exhausted delegates.
In the opening stages of a parliament, a great deal of 'horse-trading' goes on behind the scenes while mutually acceptable selections are hammered out.
Its European equivalent would, arguably, require a new treaty, just as the European Central Bank did, and all the political horse-trading that would entail.
In this electoral season, frenzied horse-trading has created some unholy alliances, and what many see as a wholesale sacrifice of principle for maslah (self-interest).
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.
It looks like there was some horse-trading until the very end.
One early piece of horse-trading already seems to have taken place.
Under the old system, a ruling party could remove its leader and install a new prime minister, or there could be horse-trading for a new coalition.
In return for this concession, which is part of a broader horse-trading process, Muslim leaders are being urged to co-operate with the police and isolate extremists.
There may be carping about the hardships of the extra games now, but watch: It will dissipate in a swirl of horse-trading necessary to make a deal.
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This scheme may be a quirky California creation now, but if Congress decides to set a cap on carbon emissions nationwide, this kind of horse-trading could become commonplace.
But the tight and rigid timetable for Doha was designed to avoid a repetition of the Uruguay round, which overran by three years and still involved eleventh-hour horse-trading.
The political horse-trading starts only after the votes are counted.
Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the liberal group, quoted Tony Blair from 2005, who had told MEPs that the EU budget should be based on "rational grounds" rather than "horse-trading".
In the style of a political thriller, it depicts President Lincoln's efforts to get a ban on slavery passed in Washington, using a combination of persuasion, inspiration, horse-trading and arm-twisting.
He actively worked with lawmakers on his health-care law and with GOP leaders in 2011 on a deal to raise the debt ceiling, but the horse-trading hurt his image among some voters.
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