But in negotiations that could last months, the presidency, a largely ceremonial post, has emerged as a growing quarrel, threatening to upset Iraq's still tenuous and ambiguous arrangements of sect, ethnicity and power.
But although the first play shows the growing quarrel between the rival cousins and leads to the fatal dice-game in which the Pandava leader (Mathias Habich) gambles away his inheritance, it is full of piercing images of tenderness.
The next year, a council held at Westminster became one of the early stages in the king's growing quarrel with Becket over criminal clerks.
In addition to awe and envy, its rise has spawned a rapidly growing list of trade quarrels.
As the world of jazz grows smaller, its quarrels and politics, like those of a college English department, grow only more intense.
While the initial season's stories sometimes touched on the difficulties of adjusting to life in a combined family, the overall focus of the series was on the ordeals of growing up, such as sibling quarrels, parental restrictions, and adolescent love.
The maternal darkness endeavors to give birth and miscarries twice, then bears twin boys who grow up to quarrel constantly about which of them was born first.
The government denies any connivance with the Justice and Lifers, though there has been more backbiting over a licence issued to a Budapest radio station.The quarrel grew last month with the appointment of one-sided boards at state-owned Hungarian Radio and Duna TV, a cultural television channel.
The historical background of this "Coloring quarrel" lies in the growing glory of Titian and Rubens, dampened at first by the fortunes of Raphael and Michelangelo.
A further frustration for the company is the recent trade quarrel between America and Mexico, a small but growing market for the firm.
