For many months, critics have been sniping at the Bush administration's unsavoury choice of ally.
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Equally tricky is the matter of how, within any country, unsavoury parties should be dealt with.
Moreover, the colonel's foreign policy continues to raise western hackles, particularly his backing of unsavoury African rulers.
Careful screening of the recruits is supposed to maintain the tribal balance and keep out unsavoury elements.
The result is that employees have felt unable to blow the whistle (at least openly) on unsavoury practices.
But many Serbs think that too many people close to the ruling coalition retain unsavoury links to organised crime.
All the same, there remains something unsavoury about Mr Blocher's views of outsiders.
But the newsletters shed light on some of the unsavoury fellow-travellers he has collected on his long political road.
Party rule, the argument runs, depends on economic growth, which in turn depends on resources supplied by unsavoury countries.
Rather, the worry is that unsavoury organisations are coming into the country to take advantage of the Cham revival.
Mr Sarkozy, by contrast, believes that in foreign as in domestic policy you must deal with everybody, even the unsavoury.
"The MAS congressional majority could have directly selected all the justices, an unsavoury prospect for the political opposition, " she says.
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The sending of notes written on bin bags - almost taunting the police - was a bizarre and unsavoury post script.
It was an unsavoury moment on which to end the match but nothing was to deny Fulham their jubilant and richly-deserved denouement.
Church officials subsequently claimed that the pope knew nothing of the bishop's unsavoury views and later Benedict made a strong condemnation of Holocaust denial.
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To leave your front door was to risk getting bludgeoned by an ogre, harassed by a dragon or transformed into something rather unsavoury by a witch.
Well I think there are two points, first of all the investigation into the original information about drugs and other unsavoury activities that led onto this.
In the warm-up games we have already had a taste of the hysterical, intimidating appealing the umpires will face on Thursday, and it is most unsavoury.
Mr Gormez's goal is to weed out those unsavoury texts (on restricting women's freedoms, for instance) that, in Mr Gormez's words, obscure the original values of Islam.
However, ASEAN is unlikely to go so far as to expel Myanmar, since that might draw attention to abuses in other, only slightly less unsavoury member states.
After resolving teething problems and making products that match specifications, innovation inside the factory turns to cutting costs, often in ways that range from unsavoury to dangerous.
These separate initiatives and what some perceive as a growing anti-doping culture among professional cyclists could mean that the Tour is run without the unsavoury incidents of recent years.
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Alas for oil consumers, the Middle East does not have a monopoly on instability: from Russia to Venezuela, fate has decided to hide oil under some pretty unsavoury countries.
There was an unsavoury end to proceedings when French coach Raymond Domenech refused to shake hands with Parreira at full-time, leading to an exchange of words between the two.
But heads say that academy "brokers" employed by the Department for Education (DfE) are using unsavoury methods to push primary schools into opting out of their links with local authorities.
Dozens of plots may have been foiled and thousands of lives saved as a result of some of the unsavoury practices now being employed in the name of fighting terrorism.
No figure brokered more power in the city than Ahmed Wali Karzai: head of the provincial council, unsavoury ally of the NATO forces and half-brother of Hamid Karzai, the president.
The new database, called the Global Security Risk Monitor, coupled with possible new legislation, could over time begin to knock the share prices of companies that do business with unsavoury regimes.
The French, keen to put behind them charges of complicity with unsavoury Arab regimes, took a gamble with Libya, recognising the rebels early, demanding Colonel Qaddafi's departure and pushing for air strikes.
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