If that alliance was formed at regional level, it could no longer be excluded federally.
Similarly, long-suppressed Islamist groups can no longer be excluded from political life.
They said the insular atmosphere at the C.I.A. allowed Mr. Ames to get away with his betrayal, and they were confident they would no longer be excluded.
While they are right to criticize missteps by Ennahda, they also have to recognize that, in a democracy, the Islamists can no longer be excluded from power.
Gay partners will no longer be excluded from hospital rooms because they are not legally recognized as family members, and will be able to make important medical decisions for each other.
The promise that the George W Bush administration made to Sunni groups who joined the counter-insurgency in the context of the "surge" was that their interests would no longer be excluded.
"Africa can no longer be excluded from globalization," said Paul Kagame, the country's president at a Kigali technology conference when I popped into the country earlier this fall.
Urban development increasingly occupies more landscape and is responsible for habitat alteration and fragmentation of so many ecosystems that urban environments can no longer be excluded from the areas to be considered in conservation strategies.
Latin American countries insisted that Cuba no longer be excluded, setting the scene for "the most extraordinary moment in Cuban/American relations in recent history," says Peter Kornbluh, co-author of the recently published Back Channel to Cuba.
