But Yugoslavia was also a comfortably working union for a while — and, when it failed, the Serbs and the Croats and the Bosnians were soon not only out of one another's pockets but also at one another's throats.
It may lead to ever closer union for a while, but every moment in history says that, at some time, such hauteur will be swept aside, as it almost was in the referendums of 2005.
Within Europe, I think gay marriage was institutionalised first in the Netherlands, while Scandinavian countries stuck with civil unions for a while, in large measure because the Netherlands is more conservative, and large segments of Dutch society still accord a semi-sacralised premium to the word "marriage" which doesn't obtain so strongly in Scandinavia.
Though the two were involved for 17 years, friends said it was an unhappy union for quite a while before it ended; that the main thing uniting Mr. Bergeron and Mr. Boute was a city that became more and more expensive to live in, a place where Mr. Bergeron's annual income of around $150,000 was barely enough to support the kind of life he led.
But Mr. Gallagher wound up as an international relations major, worked as a union organizer for a while and then turned to construction.
For those of us who have been around in the trade union movement for a while, "redirecting resources to frontline" has a very familiar ring to it.
"The old Soviet Union tried for a while to maintain a Grade A, if you will, military, but they had a Grade B economy and they couldn't keep up," Mr. Romney said.
In June 1940, he volunteered for the Royal Navy, though the union contrived for a while to hang on to his services, and even thereafter he was disappointingly far from the thick of the action.
Meanwhile, some of the finger-wagging should surely be redirected at Major League Baseball itself, which, together with the players union, for a long while chose to look the other way when the steroid question came up.
Frustration at the state of pay and health insurance — in addition to proposed changes to rules governing hiring, firing and the payment of union dues — had been building for a while.
The latest UK White Paper proposes to stay in the EU's Single Market and customs union for goods, while leaving open the contentious issue of services.
