The growing clamour from European capitals for the UK to act quickly to sever its ties, after Thursday's dramatic 52%to48%8% vote for Brexit, came as both the Tories and Labour faced divisive, destabilising and possibly prolonged leadership battles.
"It is my view, however, that prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable damage to the institution.
In the aftermath of the peace process, a bitter debate has opened up between mainstream provisional republicans and rival dissident factions over whether the hunger strike was deliberately prolonged by the leadership in order to build up political support for the movement.
Republican sources suggested later that DAAD had siphoned off anger and bloodlust while their leadership struggled to prolong the ceasefire.
Instead, it led to prolonged clashes over the shared leadership of Morgan Stanley's most prominent business.
President Trump plunged his leadership into a prolonged constitutional battle yesterday after declaring a national emergency to seize billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexico border "much faster" than a deal agreed by Congress would allow.
Under his and Ludwig Erhard's leadership, the country enjoyed prolonged economic growth beginning in the early 1950s, that became famous as an "economic miracle" (Wirtschaftswunder).
Meanwhile, the (modest) excitement of the Labour leadership race has helped to prolong the Labour era, in a way, keeping the party at least a bit in the news.
"If a cartel is weakened and made vulnerable, as the Beltrán Leyvas were, but there is no authority to assume the roles of leadership and enforcement, clearly that prolongs the situation".
The bones in his foot first broke in a pool game against France but McCaw refused to have himself x-rayed – while the All Blacks management, desperately needing his leadership, allowed him to evade prolonged medical scrutiny until after the World Cup.
This phase may be prolonged if there is a lack of leadership, no incentive to improve, competing demands, organisational changes or lack of continuous monitoring of performance.
