But a spokesman, Chris Policano, said that the union remained hopeful that the three unions would, despite any current difficulties, agree on a single candidate.
Staying out has done the City no harm: its current difficulties arise from the general weakness of financial markets.
He added: "No-one knows how long current difficulties will last, therefore Scottish ministers must waste no time in devising a longer term strategy that implements the reforms and makes fleets more resilient and adaptable to changing fishing opportunities".
In a final letter to Dr Southall in February this year, Ms Doran - who in 2005 had advised Keele's vice-chancellor that "we may... wish to take a view that we don't want him as an emeritus professor because of adverse publicity on the university" - insisted that the decision not to confer the title had been "no reflection on the current difficulties to which you refer".
We have many joint projects and I believe in their success no matter what the current difficulties.
Lesson # 3: No matter what our current difficulties may be, someone else has grown from a difficulty like it -- and so can we.
But no, in the sense that Romney could have avoided almost all of his current difficulties, media bias or no, through the simple expedient of running a modestly more competent and creative campaign.
Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, said he was shocked by news of Mr Vilar's arrest, but made it clear the investor's current difficulties would have no impact on the financial plans of the Royal Opera House.
"Horatio's timely discovery that there was no such thing as hell was convenient, given his current difficulties," Geniesse writes, dryly.
A spokesman for Hayden, Stone said yesterday that the current difficulties of Four Sea sons would have no effect on the firm's capital.
"Mobile needs to be a cornerstone of Microsoft's business for future success," said Wood. "This is by no means a silver-bullet solution to Nokia and Microsoft's current difficulties.
