As a sign of its growing alarm, the Indian government summoned an all-party emergency meeting that day in Delhi to discuss ways of ending the spiralling violence in the region.

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Mr Ward has been summoned to a meeting with party whips next week.

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Mr Takamuki was summoned to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarters and asked to think hard about Chizaki.

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Whenever he has summoned up the courage to challenge the party's leftish interest groups by questioning affirmative action, for example, or taking on the teachers' unions he has always retreated in the end.

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Summoned back from degree ceremonies at Bangor University by party whips to vote in the confidence motion against Lesley Griffiths, he not only declined to make the journey south, thereby guaranteeing Labour would win the vote comfortably, but was also happy to go in front of the cameras to denounce the decision, calling his Assembly group "Tory poodles" for voting alongside them.

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It was only after Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's new leader, summoned Mr Yeltsin to Moscow in 1985 that he began to differentiate himself from dozens of other senior party apparatchiks.

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