But the first-round results made it strikingly clear that she had paid dearly for adopting the roughhouse tactics favoured by the prime minister.Mr Berlusconi applauded when Ms Moratti used her claws in the final stages of the campaign, publicly accusing her rival of having consorted with left-wing extremists.
At the same time, he was one of the most reprobate figures in the history of British art-dealing.He was a gallery-owner who rarely if ever paid his artists, who consorted with rent boys a gay man, he was promiscuous when sex between men was still a crime and who went to jail for heroin possession.
In the week of July 10th-16th he consorted with a group of Republican conservatives men such as Steve Largent and Joe Scarborough from the House's gung-ho 1994 intake who were plotting to overthrow Mr Gingrich as speaker of the House.
He has consorted with Kurdish leaders and with Mr Allawi, issuing ultimatums telling Mr Maliki to reform or go.
If we don't, the world will conclude that those racist Americans were too prejudiced to vote for a black man.The fact that Mr Obama's record is thin, that he has consorted with anti-American communist radicals and black radicals, and supports giving drivers' licences to illegal immigrants, none of that will matter.
A man accused of war crimes became a notable post-war prime minister and Yakuza gang bosses consorted with top politicians and helped put down left-wing protests.
He consorted with kleptocrats and murderers.
Returning to Wilno, he consorted with young socialists.
Traditionally she was the wife, or mistress, and adviser of King Numa Pompilius, who established the grove at Rome and consorted with her there.
After brief periods in Switzerland and Belgium, Bakunin settled in Paris, where he consorted with French and German Socialists, including Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx, and numerous Polish émigrés who inspired him to combine the cause of the national liberation of the Slav peoples with that of social revolution.
It includes claims made by his former staffers that he consumed Oxycontin, a pain killer, consorted with sex workers, drove under the influence and instructed staff to buy him alcohol.
