It would be difficult to dispute that his leadership rests firmly in McCluskey's hands, and would be finished were Unite to withdraw its support.
She was Wimbledon champion again, and all those who had suggested that the elder, more cerebral, of sisters was washed up and finished were left marvelling at her ability to confound the lot of them.
"The people who said Al Qaeda in Iraq was finished were fooling themselves," said Hadi al-Amiri, former leader of a Shiite militia and also of the Parliament's security committee, using another name for the insurgent group.
The elections that just finished were an important milestone on the road to the referendum, as laid out in an American-backed peace treaty in 2005 between Mr. Bashir's ruling party and the southern rebels.
And the shape of those compromises must become clear soon or the round may not be launched at all.Narrow or broad At the end of the Uruguay Round, some items, started but not finished, were promised a place on the agenda for the next round.
Partial genomes, posted before the genome sequence was actually finished, were treasure-troves to scientists waiting to parse raw sequence into genes and regulatory elements and answer specific questions of biological and medical interest.
