But politics is a fickle mistress, and Yushchenko the President who appointed Tymoshenko prime minister after his electoral victory in 2004 was quickly beset by allegations of corruption and double dealing.
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That the political party now in control of both houses of Congress, and well-positioned to form the next administration seems to have discarded this basic truth is far more dangerous for Iraq, the Middle East and indeed the entire world, than the chronic weakness, incompetence, double dealing and corruption of the Maliki government or of any successor government.
The United States simply can no longer afford to look the other way on Saudi double-dealing.
Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".
The WikiLeaks disclosures, alleging Pakistani double-dealing, will not serve such dreams.
Even the New York Times is now acknowledging the obvious: the principal beneficiary of the forced departure of an Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak - a double-dealing leader who nonetheless passed, in the hall of mirrors that is Mideast politics, for a reliable U.S. ally - will likely be the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic).
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Many nations in Latin America have grown increasingly weary of the United States' seemingly double standards when dealing with its Latin American neighbors.
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Some centre-right MEPs went as far as to accuse Western politicians of double standards, not only in dealing with the past, but also with present-day communist regimes.
The weakness of managed corporations in dealing with accelerating change is only half the double-flanked attack on traditional notions of corporate management.
The cost of dealing with Guernsey's waste will almost double in the near future, according to the department responsible for disposing of it.
Alan Sherry, the principal of John Wheatley College, who was speaking on behalf of Scotland's Colleges pointed out that the funding methodologies for the average learner do not apply when dealing with the most vulnerable formerly looked after young people, where double the funding was required to help support the individual.
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