With human trauma victims, currently Alam has only five minutes to stitch up before tissue damage begins.
That was a reference to his recent meeting with Gordon Brown in the Loch Fyne oyster bar in which it was claimed they tried to stitch up the Labour leadership.
Seattle showed that it is no longer acceptable for rich countries to stitch up trade deals among themselves and expect developing countries to concur without being involved in a meaningful way.
When it does, expect the Kremlin to go for the quickest political fix it has to hand: The 63bcm South Stream pipeline specifically designed to stitch up South East European markets as the target of choice.
When asked if he thought he was vulnerable, he agreed, and said his parents tried to stop him going out "because when I go out people try to stitch me up".
Of course, greens howled in protest at the dismissal of climate change, and pointed to some sort of stitch up: after all, some argued, Dr Lomborg is well known for his opposition to the Kyoto treaty.
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He warned about any review on civil partnerships being "kicked into the long grass", adding that Parliament "was in danger of being party to a last minute stitch-up between the frontbenches".
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And the prime minister has one huge point against him: he owes his position to an army-backed stitch-up.
The Shapeways site has an entire category dedicated to fashion which is largely made up of accessories, but once designers figure out how to stitch all the pieces together we should be seeing more and more garments.
Suppliers (even the Malay ones) now have to bid for contracts, rather than stitch them up in backroom deals.
With Sicko, Moore starts out telling the stories of a few people without health insurance, who can't afford to reattach cut-off fingers or who stitch up their own wounds.
At the heart of the fix-as-stitch-up is a persistent unwillingness to face the power of this law, and a desire to enforce a political rhetoric that ignores it.
The two Republican senators from Alabama, where EADS was planning to establish an assembly line to build the KC-45 and a freighter version of the A330, were quick to condemn what they regard as a political stitch-up that put jobs in traditionally Democratic Washington state (Boeing's home) before employment in their region.
Among the areas where Britain needed more control, he argued, were free trade, "to make sure that other countries can't stitch things up against British goods and British business", monetary policy, tax policy, and "less bureaucracy and less intrusion by Brussels into seemingly every aspect of our lives".
Fortuna Silver also set up a business for local women to sew and stitch safety vests and safety suits for the local miners as well run their own sewing business.
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But it is hard for them also to claim that the Jenkins report is a Lab-Lib stitch-up.
Mr Zelaya has declined to co-operate with the commission, labelling it a stitch-up.
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But Conservative leader David Cameron warned against "an establishment stitch-up", while the Lib Dems have threatened to boycott the inquiry if it is held in private.
And Conservative MP Peter Bone, who sits on the panel, decried the move as "a stitch-up", claiming it was an attempt by the executive "to ignore Parliament and impose its will on the House".
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