Finally, in both systems, though for completely different reasons, supreme executive power had or has a tendency to fall into the hands of people totally unsuited for any but the ceremonial aspects of the job, and endlessly open to manipulation by advisers, ministers and cliques.
So no two are exactly alike, and it's the master blender's job to take these endlessly varying ingredients and make a consistent product the Talisker 10 Year Old, for example.
And Ms. Nixon said that she had interviewed endlessly for jobs in real estate and office work and that even her teenagers could not find fast-food jobs because laid-off adults were filling them.
Some days, out-of-work friends will want to talk endlessly about their job searches.
He said the ACF challenge was "the latest in a litany of attempts by politically-motivated activists seeking to endlessly delay new, job creating projects in Queensland".
From his job at Jodrell Bank, he searches endlessly, fruitlessly, for his sister in the stars: where is Susan, and what happened to her? Bringing together elements of his novels Strandloper and Red Shift, twisting and twining through Colin's story is that of a man from an ancient time, The Watcher, whose lonely quest plays out in language redolent of myth.
But his punt is that a nation where expectations have sunk further than output will be sufficiently thankful for (slightly) bigger GDP plus a (slightly) smaller deficit, to put him back in No 10 to, in a phrase we will now hear endlessly, "finish the job".
All the Hardware Battlefield companies did an amazing job and the judges were endlessly impressed.
"I spent eight months searching endlessly for a job and nothing came of it - I had hundreds of rejections".
But the country is forever moving forward and my job is to document its endlessly fascinating paradoxes.
For one, it's given us a lot more breathing room, since we aren't endlessly comparing our jobs, progress and institutions.
