But they are increasingly annoyed by the instability resulting from endless tussles between the parliament and governments appointed by the emir.
Writing a definitive history has its perils, and Harris tells us more than we want to know, chronicling aborted or stalled projects and endless tussles with the military over assignments and the tone and the explicitness of combat footage that the public might see.
(While we're here, if Scotland went it alone, wouldn't Tory Euroscepticism enfeeble a shrunken Britain yet further?) There were also musings on the likelihood of endless tussles over everything from the national pension pot to foreign embassies - and, as one contributor put it, the possibility of Britain temporarily "going out of business in terms of its relations with the rest of the world".
I know that endless tussles with the EU play well at home, but the EU's view of Britain might be that we're always yelling in a corner about chips.
Another scrap in our endless 21st century tussle, one more little shard of brutality in the general wreckage.
Another scrap in our endless 21st century tussle, one more little shard of brutality in the general wreckage. .
But the trains are in essence government-run, and Parks presents Italy as a country in which life is an endless series of tussles with the begrudged incubus of the state.
Sadness, it seems, can't stop herself from touching happy core memories and turning them sad, and when she and Joy get into a tussle about this, they both are accidentally ejected from HQ and transported to the endless corridors of Long Term Memory, where things really get interesting.
I was bored with Minn and Bubl, I was bored with the endless driving round, the waiting while he ran his mysterious errands, the long heavy meals in restaurants, the tussles in strange bedrooms, the fact that we never met anyone except Danny and Helen.
