IN 1999, the conservative opposition came within 32,000 votes of overhauling the centre-left Concertación coalition, which has governed Chile uninterruptedly since the end of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
The PRI had ruled Mexico uninterruptedly for seven decades through co-option and, when necessary, election-fiddling.
As the "assassins" who brought down Margaret Thatcher begat the "bastards" who almost did for John Major, so the Brownite-Blairite struggle has been elided, almost uninterruptedly, with intra-Brownite strife.
A veteran leftist, he had been in government uninterruptedly since 1999.
The ruling coalition, led by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), has run the country uninterruptedly since the peninsula's independence from Britain 51 years ago.
Bridge tournaments are equally draining, with some being played uninterruptedly for 24 hours.But there is more at stake than amour propre.
Fernando Lugo was sworn in as Paraguay's president on August 15th after having defeated the Partido Colorado (PC), which had ruled the country uninterruptedly for over 60 years, in a historic election in April.
Meanwhile, emissions of carbon dioxide (which would be expected to push temperatures up) rose uninterruptedly.
There he observed and computed almost uninterruptedly and in 1792 published Tables du Soleil, de Jupiter, de Saturne, d'Uranus et des satellites de Jupiter ("Tables of the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter's Satellites").
That September the Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia was succeeded by the People's Party (later the Republican People's Party), which ruled Turkey uninterruptedly from 1923 to 1950.
The totem serves as an agent, placing man within the Dreaming and providing him with an indestructible identity that continues uninterruptedly from the beginning of time to the present and into the future.
