Painful economic decisions may be necessary, which could exacerbate right-left divisions.
But by the late 1980s family divisions left him as heir to the construction interests.
Michigan presents a similar picture of virulent opposition on the left and troubling divisions on the right.
South Africa's democracy is barely 13 years old and the racial divisions left by Apartheid still run through this country.
Most left-leaning voters are exasperated by the left's divisions.
She has managed to court support across Europe's various divisions: left and right, north and south, Euro-enthusiast and Eurosceptic.
The good new is, is that our problems are imminently solvable and does not necessarily fall into the classic ideological divisions between left and right, conservative, liberal, but are just smart things to do to respond to a historic challenge that we face as a country.
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It barely matters that her promise is, as some Socialists are hinting, just an electoral ploy meant to paper over divisions in the French left over Europe.
He began well, with plans to dispose of unpromising divisions and reorganise what was left.
The scandal has deepened divisions in Brazil's left wing, which was once united in its support for Lula.
But once again, the divisions among the region's left-of-centre governments were on display.
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Otherwise, they argue, the single-currency selection process will dominate the campaign next spring, dangerously reopening divisions over Europe, even though the left may suffer no less.
That this has happened will be of little surprise to those who know the left - and fellow travellers in the Labour Party have never been short of their own internal divisions and squabbles.
The eminently sensible idea that students should pay for most of their university education themselves, which Tony Blair and his allies have been floating this week, is causing divisions within the government, and an unusual alliance between middle England and Labour's left.
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Ralf Sotschek, the UK correspondent of the centre-left Tageszeitung , sees Mr Cameron's initiative as a "domestic manoeuvre" aimed at ending Tory divisions.
PS3 is a litmus test for Sir Howard's turnaround effort, one of the aims of which is to get Sony's various divisions to co-operate more fully. (A spat between its electronics and content units left the field open for Apple's iPod.) The company insists that despite recent problems such as the battery recall, the turnaround is going well behind the scenes.
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The party has been left hoping against hope that, when the war ends, America's voters will forget about the Democrats' divisions and return to domestic concerns, where the Democrats usually do better.
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