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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
With a new constitution and a shift to a parliamentary system in the summer of 2010, observers, especially Americans, hoped Kyrgyzstan might become a model democracy in a region largely run by unsavoury strongmen.
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As it happened, Adebayor was relegated to the substitutes bench - but that did little to take the spice out of proceedings and the opening stages were marked by a series of unsavoury challenges.
Haddin's response was to come down the pitch and confront Benn and things turned more unsavoury when Johnson came in from the side to push the West Indian, forcing umpire Billy Bowden to step in.
Mr Hamilton may now be a bankrupt and an outcast, but Mr Al Fayed has been further exposed as a deeply unsavoury fantasist, and as a man who was evidently quite willing to pay bribes.
Although it had some unsavoury, ultra-nationalist allies, the Socialist People's Party, Montenegro's main opposition group, which is backed by Mr Milosevic, co-operated amicably with international observers to make sure the contest was seen to be fair.
As a consequence, Balkan leaders do not do enough to fulfil their promises to the EU, the reputation of the Balkans as an unsavoury region racked by organised crime remains, and the whole situation stays blocked.
Most recently, the Brick Box has been given a six-month trial to transform the Angel Pub, an old public house located just a few minutes' walk away on Coldharbour Lane, a road that once had an unsavoury reputation for street crime.
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The incident came after Wenger used his programme notes to call for talks between managers and referees to clarify rules on tackling after a spate of unsavoury incidents this term - most notably tackles by Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong and Wolves defender Karl Henry.
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