He warned Labour rebels not to "give succour" to the Tories who are "playing games about this".
In the same interview, Mr Berlusconi also succeeded in depriving himself of succour from the left-wing opposition.
Meanwhile, as Mr Taseer himself never failed to point out, the state gives succour to violent, extremist organisations.
Succour for parents while their kids are out crashing the car over Christmas.
According to who you believed it was Save Our Souls, or Sinking Of Ship, or Send Out Succour or Save Our Ship.
Would he drift to the left, where he has tended to find succour and supporters in his feuds with his neighbour?
Everywhere from Colombia to Kurdistan to the Caucasus, armies have dealt with separatist insurgencies by uprooting the communities that succour them.
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But since he must offer both succour to debtor countries and reassurance to creditors, he has worryingly little room for manoeuvre.
The Arab Community Centre for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) has become a national model, offering succour to people of all faiths.
Thus all the measures to tax the rich to succour the poor in the name of crime reduction were and are entirely uneccessary.
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Defeat in Afghanistan would mark a humiliation for the West, and for NATO, that would give succour to its foes in the world.
Mr Hussein continues to give succour to various terrorist organisations, and may hope that they will rally to his cause in the event of war.
Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?
PP the moderate reforming centre, the Thatcherite economic liberals and the pro-clerical conservatives, with roots going back to Franco, who look for succour from the Opus Dei movement.
Even Syria, which has watched Iraq with a baleful eye, has taken succour from his past membership of the Baath party, a version of which still reigns in Damascus.
Although the public-distribution system for food has collapsed in much of the country, the regime has tried, albeit imperfectly, to stamp out informal markets, the only succour for many.
Though Mr Pielke is sometimes denounced by stalwarts of climate science as giving succour to those who would deny the importance of global warming, he does not belong to that camp.
After all, an important source of official succour disappeared with the collapse of the Soviet empire for most international revolutionaries could be sure of a warm welcome in Moscow, East Berlin or Sofia.
The Israelis express sorrow for the misery of ordinary Palestinians but put the blame squarely on the terrorists whom they succour and on their leaders, Mr Arafat to the fore, for egging them on.
In recent years, Syria has been able to mute American criticism of the succour it gives to extremist guerrilla groups and of its role in Lebanon, among other things by providing useful intelligence against al-Qaeda.
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All take succour from recent, generally favourable reassessments of the British empire, notably the one offered in a book (and television series) by Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian now at New York University.
They claim the movement now has only about a dozen experienced hitmen on the loose, along with about 50 guerrillas and 350-400 people, spread around Spain, France and Latin America, who give them vital succour.
So, with a huge government majority and even Mr Brown's worst Labour enemies determined not to give the Tories any succour, particularly in the run up to local elections, the outcome was always a foregone conclusion.
For succour, Mr de la Rua and Argentina must look abroad, and pray that a slowing economy in the United States will lead to lower international interest rates and a weaker dollar to which Argentina's overvalued currency is pegged.
There must be a danger that, in those circumstances, there would be such a backlash of public anger that it would be even harder for Germany's leaders to provide the scale and kind of financial succour essential to the eurozone's survival.
The Comcast bid provides both succour and a conundrum for two of Disney's noisiest critics, who would presumably prefer the firm to stay independent: Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, two former board members who resigned their positions in December in order to mount a public campaign against Mr Eisner.
That the American people appear to have kept faith in the hardest of times with the idea of leaving it mainly to markets rather than governments to allocate life's material rewards strikes many Republicans as a marvellous thing the glorious opposite of what happened in the 1930s, when the economically stricken turned to government for succour.
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