The collapse of support for Mr Sarkozy's centre-right party and the surge of support for Marine Le Pen have turned the election into a laboratory for an unstable new era in French politics.
Still, for all the fluidity, that more parochial tipping point the one that seals Mr Brown's fate may come during 2008.Even in a newly unstable political era, there will be times when reputations dip too low to be recovered, or when a party's momentum becomes, in the short term, almost impossible to stop.
The world is looking more unstable because this era of greater freedom, for both states and individuals, has generated a plethora of new actors and strong subjective differences over how they should interact.
Here in Washington, news that Mr. Obama had tapped Mr. Wisner revived memories for some of an even more colorful Frank Wisner Mr. Wisnerr's father, a freewheeling if mentally unstable cold-war-era spy who helped found the modern C.I.A. and ran its clandestine service.
Yet in an era of unstable governments it is a saving grace that coalitions have not become a recipe for paralysis.
But Renato Brunetta, a leading opposition politician with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, complained on Wednesday that Italy was returning to an era of unstable government.
Thus, along with data from other reported species, the selenoproteins examined in this work suggest that the size and variety of selenoproteomes were unstable before the multicellular animal era.
For airlines, which are battling for profitability in an era of high and unstable fuel costs, ancillary fee revenue is increasingly crucial to the bottom line.
The fact that the post-Arab Spring Middle East is unstable today in ways that make our Reagan-era and Clinton-era approaches seem obsolete does not prove those approaches were misguided at the time; it just proves that what worked decently in one generation can't always be sustained into the next.
It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism.
