Most of these initiatives will not be able to depend on backing by military force, as so much of American policy in Iraq has until now.
If not, Hollande would have to depend on backing from Green deputies to pass laws, or even the leftist Front de Gauche, including Communist MPs who, unlike the ecologists, have no alliance with Hollande and could make for heated parliamentary dealings.
But the Palestinians' agreement to join the talks still depends on backing from the Arab League.
Another possible result is a minority Social Democrat government that depends on backing from the unrepentant Czech Communist Party.
On Europe, Mr Rutte has often seemed ambivalent over the past two years, as his coalition depended on backing from the Eurosceptic Mr Wilders.
The Sun's reputation depends on backing winners and, unsure which way the electorate is now swinging, it knows if it picks the loser next time, it may end up looking like a chump.
On this week's Popcast, Ben Ratliff, the host, talks to The Times's music-business reporter Ben Sisario on how this and other rights-reversion issues might affect big labels that depend on back-catalog revenue, the shifting power relationships between artists and their corporate minders and what major labels can still do for musicians.
Vital services for children, including hospitals, now depend on back-up generators that are kept running by humanitarian fuel provision.
Furthermore, we found behavioural variant FTD abnormalities in posterior parietal and temporal cortex that depend on back projections from frontal cortex, but which can reveal relative preservation of grey matter in behavioural variant FTD by structural imaging (Williams et al., 2005; Pereira et al., 2009; Whitwell et al., 2009; Gordon et al., 2010).
This memory process likely depends on back-projections from the hippocampus to neocortical areas, causing the reactivation of memory patterns in (a subset of) the areas that were involved in perceiving the original event.
The UN said all hospitals in the city, straining to deal with hundreds of wounded Palestinians over the past few days, had been without mains electricity for 48 hours and were depending on back-up generators, which were close to failing.
