Analysts said it was clear that more than four months of wrangling over the terms of an extension to the country's massive bailout programme has taken its toll.
After months of wrangling, the broadcasters finally agreed seven leaders would be allowed to take part, allowing David Cameron to dodge a head-to-head with Ed Miliband.
After months of wrangling over the composition, format and timing of the debates, the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 announced the final deal with the political parties on Saturday.
Israeli officials blamed Abbas, and his decision to restart his push for membership of 15 UN bodies for the move, which was itself a Palestinian response to delays and wrangling over the prisoners' release.
After months of wrangling, Greece still can't reach an agreement with its creditors to secure fresh financial assistance and doesn't have the ready cash to make a payment due to the International Monetary Fund at the end of next week.
I love waking up for breakfast, I love having breakfast for lunch, I have a 98% success rate of wrangling breakfasts out of meetings – and for dinner, well, breakfast will always do.
IMF officials are known to be concerned that the impetus for reforms has wained and in some cases descended into wrangling over bailout programmes, as is the case in Europe between Brussels and Athens.
Two days after the Games ended, and after much wrangling with broadcaster STV, Alex Salmond confronted Alistair Darling in the first televised debate of the referendum – a duel that set the tone for the last six weeks before polling day.
After nearly a decade of legal wrangling, especially over the laid-off workers' dues, it was decided to redevelop the defunct land – an eye-popping 600 acres in prime south and central Bombay.
I, thankfully, was spared, so was able to take care of wrangling the two enormous suitcases, car seat, pram, nappy bag, baby and travel documents all the way from Shepherd's Bush to the lemon-scented, bougainvillea-hung courtyard of El Fenn.
George Osborne warned that the leaders of the eurozone had six weeks to end their political wrangling and resolve the continent's crippling debt crisis.
