But, Iraqi officials say, the Iranians are opposed to Mr. Allawi, while the Turks have lingering reservations about Mr. Maliki.
Two years after the Senate race, despite lingering reservations, she helped her husband define his reasons for running for president.
While Ms. White's nomination is expected to sail through the committee before receiving full Senate approval, four Congressional officials who spoke anonymously warned that some Democrats have lingering reservations.
So Flacco's success, combined with the performance of the Falcons' Matt Ryan, who was last season's rookie of the year, may be enough to quell any lingering reservations about starting a rookie quarterback immediately.
Perhaps because of these lingering reservations, neither candidate has established an appreciable edge 15 days before the election in what has become the closest presidential contest since 1980, and 1960 before that.
Some lawmakers said today that despite lingering reservations about the reshuffled cabinet, their vote reflected a desire to rally around Mr. Arafat after efforts by Israel and the United States to sideline him while pressing for sweeping reforms.
Now, after President Hamid Karzai drafted him as a running mate, he is poised to take up power again and is re-emerging as an important power broker for Mr. Karzai, despite lingering reservations about him among American officials and others in the West.
As for Catholics, documents released by WikiLeaks from the Clinton campaign appeared to indicate lingering reservations towards them.
In presidential politics, where differences in enthusiasm translate to differences in turnout, and where small margins can make the difference between victory and defeat, lingering reservations about a woman president could have a profound impact.
Two episodes ago, Barristan Selmy expressed his misgivings about Dany leading a slave army into Westeros rather than an army of free men -- but that scene should quash any lingering reservations.
Richard Land, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, an arm of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, told The Huffington Post that he believes evangelical concerns about Obama administration policies will allow conservative religious voters to "overlook any lingering reservations about [Mitt] Romney's Mormonism".
