Sentence examples for imbroglio from inspiring English sources

Even though Labor has been having a small field day at the government's expense over the East Jerusalem imbroglio – Labor's Senate leader Penny Wong says the ALP won't allow this motion to proceed to a vote.

Of current "strongmen", we are quite taken with Yahya Jammeh, president of Gambia since a coup in 1994, and leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction – a name which might usefully be borrowed by whatever chaotic multi-party coalition emerges from next week's electoral imbroglio in the UK.

This imbroglio, which touches the heights of the French state, hints at the flavour of politics over the next 12 months, in the run-up to the presidential election.The story orginates in a judicial investigation, launched in 2001, into kickbacks, linked to the 1991 sale of six French frigates to Taiwan, that were allegedly channelled through Clearstream accounts.

Much as they hate the idea of American troops on their western border, helping George Bush in Iraq could be a last chance for the clerical regime to stay off the president's list of condemned countries.Ayatollah Baqer al-Hakim, a Tehran-based Iraqi dissident with followers among Iraq's Shia majority, is deeply involved in the Iranian-Iraqi-American imbroglio.

The scandal hurt the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff's predecessor and political patron, and landed some of the PT's leading lights behind bars.Lula himself emerged from that imbroglio personally untarnished and managed to win re-election in the following year.

VENEZUELA'S lawmen scored a rare coup last week and landed their country in an imbroglio that involves its two most important allies.Centre of the row was a Colombian drug lord, Justo Pastor Perafan, captured last week by the national guard near San Cristobal, not far from the Colombian border.

But the Buttiglione imbroglio was not a pure accident.

The scandal hurt the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff's predecessor, and landed some of the PT's leading lights behind bars.Lula himself emerged from that imbroglio personally untarnished and managed to win re-election the next year.