The Fine Gael-Labour government faced the opposing ranks of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the United Left Alliance and heterogeneous band of independent TDs knowing that in many ways the coalition's fate is as much in the hands of a trio staying at a hotel directly behind the parliament as inside the chamber.
So the impact of rising temperatures on farming is heterogeneous and hard to measure.It is often assumed that the economic effects of climate change will be confined mainly to poor countries.
They were also overthrowing several centuries of Amharic rule in Ethiopia.The military and political core of the northern newcomers, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), was Tigrayan, a small ethnic group, just 7% of the population, which could not hope to dominate the vast and heterogeneous country.
They have seldom played the ethnic card in politics, not least because they are a heterogeneous lot united mostly by language.
True, we also detect the emergence of a rapidly changing and heterogeneous new global middle class.
Yet such a heterogeneous grouping would be at serious risk of infighting and collapse.Offstage, another actor is warming up.
On the right, the PdL is the outcome of a merger between reconstructed neo-fascists and Mr Berlusconi's heterogeneous following of opportunists, ex-socialists, conservatives and the odd liberal.
The team applied GPS to some 1650 individuals from around the world, gleaned both from highly heterogeneous populations such as Bermuda and Puerto Rico, and from communities that had deep roots in a single country, such as indigenous highland Peruvians and Sardinians.
They were a heterogeneous group, which took time to weld into a team, but they shared one clear principle, recalls Mr Gardner: "Our absolute priority was customer service".Given its astronomical level of complaints, the company was losing customers.
First, says MIT's Daron Acemoglu, a heterogeneous middle class makes the elite less fearful of democracy than it would otherwise be.
The election of Mr Lugo, a former priest who leads a heterogeneous coalition named Alianza Patriótica para el Cambio (APC), has created high expectations of change, especially among the poor, which the new president will struggle to meet.In theory, Mr Lugo will have a working majority in both the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) and the Senate (the upper house).
