His brief is to restructure this ragbag of stakes to free capital for Allianz's core businesses.

ECONOMIST: The poacher as gamekeeper

Its candidate, Michel Temer, also belongs to a different party, the PMDB a ragbag of local political bosses, some plagued by scandal.

ECONOMIST: The stakes are high for the hapless running-mates

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Denmark's Social Democratic prime minister, whose ragbag coalition was unexpectedly re-elected in March, stoutly defends the Amsterdam treaty.

ECONOMIST: Denmark and the European Union

Fragmentation and disillusion create space for narrower groups, be they Greens, regional parties or a ragbag of anti-immigrant, anti-EU and far-right parties.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

As well as WallStrip, Last.fm and MaxPreps, he bought a ragbag of other Internet businesses, including video site Joost and online advertising start-up SpotRunner.

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By contrast the Republic's No campaigners are a ragbag of tiny groups and individuals, largely in the far southern counties of Cork and Kerry.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland

Socialists and Communists also form part of the DPJ's ragbag rebellion.

ECONOMIST: Aso steps up to the plate; but perhaps not to stay very long

So for all its wooing, Telekom is left with a ragbag of minority stakes in Europe and Asia and not much at all in America.

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English has always been a ragbag, and that encouraged further permissiveness.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

Architecturally it is a ragbag of features popularised by Sinan.

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The third feature of the elections was a sour and negative mood, shown not merely in a low turnout but also in wide support for a ragbag of far-right, populist, anti-EU or plain nutty parties.

ECONOMIST: The worrying European elections