Into this minefield of potential resentment and painful rancour, stepped a slight, soft-voiced chanteuse.
Miss Suu Kyi made a passionate speech arguing against rancour and in favour of co-operation.
An offer to co-operate with the government provided a welcome contrast to the partisan rancour in Washington.
Votes on these could stir up partisan rancour as the parties try to get together on intelligence reform.
Either way, the bill has revived the rancour that long reigned between Rio and the rest of Brazil.
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Anyway, Mr Obama himself asserted in his speech at the memorial service that partisan rancour did not cause the killing.
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Indeed, much of the BJP's rancour over his alleged giveaway was a bid to rally itself after a disappointing election.
Success still depends on whether both sides can campaign without the rancour that splits them on almost every other issue.
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Long-standing animosity and rancour between Hun Sen, Prince Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy are at the root of the current impasse.
Their desire to catch up by doing business with America and other former foes has helped dispel any lingering rancour.
But it may be hard for a grand alliance of the new establishment to draw up such a list without rancour.
Freedom for the ex-president is expected to diminish the Estrada-Poe constituency's rancour against Mrs Arroyo, and weaken Mr Poe's electoral support.
All were accepted, but one of the plans to set up an advisory body on imams and mosques collapsed amid rancour at government interference.
The vote on June 21st followed more than two years of rancour.
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During the impeachment of Joseph Estrada, Mrs Arroyo's predecessor, his allies succeeded in suppressing critical evidence, causing the trial to collapse in rancour.
After decades of stitching up party elections behind closed doors, the ANC is finding it hard to become more open without rancour or greed.
The rancour has increased because whichever political party controls the national government now has broader powers to force its ideological agenda on local communities.
Mr Speaker, in the midst of all the rancour and recrimination about expenses, let us seize the moment to lift our politics to a higher standard.
But if Mr de Klerk had plans to hand over to a younger man, he was deterred by the rancour within the party over its future direction.
David Cameron may feel no rancour towards the Tory MPs who defied him in the referendum vote, but many of them do, according to the Daily Telegraph.
In other capitals, there is special rancour that the British secured hefty opt-outs from the constitution and came back for more in the Lisbon treaty and still grumble about the results.
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The charge that some eurozone countries were seeking to engineer a Greek sovereign default and exit from the euro deepened the rancour between debtor and creditors in the dangerous standoff.
After a couple of lean decades, the defence budget has stabilised, but is still low by historical standards, and there is more than the usual rancour between the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury.
In practice, though, belief also has intractable implications for public policy, and the high salience of religious faith in the uncompromising form which John Paul professed has lent a new rancour to the politics of many democracies.
That rancour schooled a generation of politicians in the arts of anonymous briefing and back-stabbing methods now publicly disavowed by some who specialise in them but already being transferred to the incipient struggle to succeed Mr Brown as Labour leader.
Its sudden elevation in status over Chester-le-Street and Trent Bridge, in particular, remains the subject of much rancour on the circuit and we all hope that the venue proves its worth as host of the opening Test of this much anticipated series.
Well, the recent protracted and messy negotiations between the White House and Congress, between Republicans and Democrats, on how to reduce the deficit, as a prerequisite of sanctioning more US borrowing, was seen by most investors (and others) as a model of rancour, mistrust and lousy compromise.
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