A portion of Mr. Allaw's worries sprang from the inability of the opposition to forge a unified message.
In his absence, opposition leaders have been seeking to overcome internal differences and forge a unified strategy against Maduro.
In the 1980s, an American-supported autocrat, Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seeded the education system with Islamists in an effort to forge a unified Pakistani identity.
European leaders are struggling to forge a unified position that puts more pressure on the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, without undermining him.
Britain's approach helps explain why efforts to forge a unified European asylum policy have failed, and it could become a major obstacle to agreement when top officials gather for an emergency meeting later this month.
Mrs. Clinton received support from Indonesia's foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, who has scrambled in recent weeks to forge a unified position among the association's members to create a code of conduct intended to avert clashes over the various claims.
BRUSSELS — Persistent low-level grumbling over efforts by the European Union to forge a unified foreign policy swelled into public discontent on Monday when its foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, faced several separate complaints from national capitals.
Yet even as GM expanded abroad, establishing factories in 15 countries and buying Vauxhall in Britain and Opel in Germany, Sloan made little attempt to forge a unified company at home.
"Turks are amnesiac", says Eryumlu, who feels they were also encouraged to forget that "we all have different ancestors", in order to forge a unified state from a defeated empire after the first world war.
With the 15-member council called to an emergency session last night, diplomats scrambled to forge a unified front against the test which was seen as a provocative step towards North Korea gaining a full nuclear arsenal.
A senior lieutenant to Yasir Arafat said today that the militant Hamas organization had blocked all efforts in recent days to forge a unified Palestinian stand on suicide attacks and statehood.
