In the meantime, the minor parties have been sidelined, with the collapse of Ukip in particular fuelling the expected scale of the Conservative victory.
Both the Sunnis and the Kurds had pulled out of the outgoing government of Nouri Maliki, who was widely blamed - including by Washington - for precipitating the current crisis by monopolising power and pursuing sectarian policies which alienated and marginalised the Sunnis in particular, fuelling grievances which the IS militants were swift to exploit.
This last find in particular inevitably fuelled speculation that a serial killer was at work.
In the meantime, reliance on European Central Bank funding is increasing.The state of Banco CAM in particular has fuelled doubts about the credit quality of other lenders and hurt the Bank of Spain's reputation for tight supervision.
It also profits from a licence to issue derivatives tied to MSCI share indices, and may soon offer products tied to LIBOR, a benchmark interest rate that is to be administered by another division of ICE.Derivatives in general and energy futures in particular have fuelled ICE's rapid growth.
Sorting children by religion leads to segregation, if not extremism, they say, and Muslim schools in particular risk fuelling dangerous fires.
Mobile video in particular is fuelling that boost, with the most growth compared to desktop.
In its annual results statement, TS Prestwick Holdco said the group had seen "positive increases in almost all income streams" during the year, in particular from fuelling aircraft.
An investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme has revealed that demand from Asia and China in particular is fuelling the illegal trade and putting endangered species even more at risk.
In New York, the rhetoric of resilience comes with a particular defensiveness, one fuelled by a sense of exceptionalism.
She added: "The strong results at our auctions over the last year, and during the last six months in particular, have further fuelled the confidence of vendors.
