There were dark nights for Rudd after his defenestration but it remained a constant comfort that he had never been rejected by the Australian people.
Gillard backer Gary Gray said he had agreed to stay on as resources minister, but was still blunt in his assessment that Gillard's leadership had been killed off by a constant campaign of destabilisation by Rudd supporters.
"The Farc need constant reassuring because they are very, very mistrustful," Shifter says.
He pointed out that having founded the FN and "led it during a period of 40 years of constant adversity" he considered himself a good "locomotive" to head the local regional election campaign.
And the constant pursuit of the economic and military advantage and superiority which scientific invention and technology confer is an essential component of a world-view that changes the realities on the ground.
And it came as the new prime minister Kevin Rudd also said he was worried that the constant arrival of asylum seekers by boat would see "the fragmentation of support" for Australia's migration system.
In Auschwitz, "We lived in a constant state of high alert.
It was repeated throughout the show's three hours as a constant reminder to listeners that – whatever Barclays' staggeringly broad sins of the past (mis-selling, rigging interest rates, violating sanctions) – it is now firmly on the side of the angels.
"No other country in Europe offers such potential," he says as cranes in constant motion move containers from ship to dock outside.
But attracting and keeping talented trustees, non-executive directors (Neds) and senior managers is a constant test.
These thefts, and the frequent contests which they produce, have for some time furnished a constant fund of amusement to the bystanders.
