The interim constitution, which is likely to remain in force until the end of 2005, grants broad protections for individuals within a federal system intended to hold the country's fractious parts together.
And he has aroused high expectations among voters and his fractious party.Discussions with Brussels are only part of the story.
Free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea and Panama, supported by both parties, have been stalled because the Democrats want ratification linked to renewal of a worker-training programme and Republicans do not.American politics has always been fractious; that is part of its strength.
What was the European Union designed for but to join small, fractious, and unimportant parts of that continent with the major players?
Helping stakeholders clarify their interests, especially when they are part of fractious groups, is difficult, but it is the science diplomats job to do so.
The organization has failed to assert itself as a strong voice at a time when racial, ethnic, and religious hate crimes are on the rise and fractious divides have become part of our social fabric.
For their part, the outgunned, fractious but resilient rebels will not talk to the regime until President Bashar Assad goes.
The American news media sometimes fall victim to groupthink and herding, but they are too fractious and competitive to be part of a conspiracy.
The administration has also stepped up its efforts to bring cohesion to the fractious political opposition represented in part by the coalition, even as Jarba has moved to consolidate his standing with a series of foreign visits.
My mother, as tough-as-nails a white African as any, still gets emotional when she talks of the courage of her three "fugitives," all of whom are now friends and in Parliament, part of the fractious national unity government set up between Mr. Mugabe and the M.D.C. in 2009.
The relationship between film and television has always been a bumptious and fractious thing, at least in part because historically the professional and social hierarchies of those two businesses were as rigidly limited, and limiting, as the court of Louis the Sun King.
