Ben Nelson, a right-wing Democrat from Nebraska, put forward a similar amendment this week but failed to find the 60 votes needed.

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The precariousness of the prime minister's position was embarrassingly demonstrated on July 10th, when the Knesset voted by 54 to 52 in favour of a motion of no confidence in the prime minister put forward by the right-wing Likud party not far short of the 61 votes needed to topple Mr Barak.

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Washington is playing a livelier brand of hockey under Oates, a Hockey Hall of Fame forward who shifted Ovechkin from left wing to right wing and helped design the Capitals' league-best power play.

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But Washington is playing a livelier brand of hockey under first-time NHL head coach Adam Oates, a Hockey Hall of Fame forward who shifted Ovechkin from left wing to right wing and helped design the Capitals' league-best power play.

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Austrian Scharner broke the deadlock in the 57th minute as he headed home Charles N'Zogbia's right-wing cross, then Jordi Gomez hit Everton's woodwork, but French forward Saha leveled on 62 when he nodded in a Baines corner.

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Showing supreme confidence, he dummied a pass to Dowling, kicked forward on the left wing and scooped it up on the bounce with his right foot before gleefully touching down.

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With Villa struggling to keep hold of the ball, United continued to flow forward and a sliding Park was inches away from converting Rooney's enticing right-wing cross.

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He broke from the right-wing party Likud in November 2005 to form a new centrist political party, Kadima, which means "forward" in Hebrew.

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