UPDATE: June 17 The duumvirate has struck a working committee!. From Wordnik.com. [Iggy...pop! [updated]] Reference
UPDATE: (June 17) The duumvirate has struck a working committee!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Since then, Ukraine has a divided government with a duumvirate, at its top. From Wordnik.com. [Ukraine's Window of Opportunity] Reference
Within days, it was becoming evident to observers in the media and the diplomatic corps that the duumvirate would not last. From Wordnik.com. [Shuja Nawaz: Who Will Be Calling the Shots in Pakistan?] Reference
But the conflict that is now unfolding dwarfs the tensions that have previously bedevilled the 12-year Blair – Brown duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [The great New Labour civil war] Reference
In which case, it's possible that Putin will become the victim of his own creation -- Medvedev's "successorship" and the power duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [Imagine That! Putin Might Not Be So Pure After All.] Reference
A combination of the Thatcher reforms and the decade-long Blair – Brown duumvirate has achieved what was once deemed impossible: Britain has stopped declining. From Wordnik.com. [It’s the Broken Society, stupid] Reference
The fortysomethings who now dominate the Cabinet have left it far too late to move against the Blair-Brown duumvirate that held the party in thrall for too long. From Wordnik.com. [It’s over. Labour’s only hope is the next generation] Reference
"The fortysomethings who now dominate the Cabinet have left it far too late to move against the Blair-Brown duumvirate that held the party in thrall for too long". From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
The rest of the editorial is equally trenchant and well worth a read, not least the reminder that the dysfunctional Blair-Brown duumvirate is steadily re-shaping Britain in Europe's image. From Wordnik.com. [I just love it] Reference
For this structure was no longer a duumvirate, shared between the façade of civil administration and the authority of the military, but a lumpish hexagonal pyramid with Hitler at its summit. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Hasan Pasha placed loyal beys in control and departed in October 1787, but by July 1791 the duumvirate of Ibrahim and Murad was back in power and, two years later, again ceased the transfer of tribute to Istanbul. From Wordnik.com. [1774-89] Reference
Dawg's Blawg: Word of the day: "duumvirate". From Wordnik.com. [Word of the day: "duumvirate"] Reference
Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The Bush-Cheney duumvirate won an undeclared war against the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09] Reference
Tartar frontier, and the charge of imperial affairs was taken over by a regency or duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
Mr Medvedev is still very much viewed as Mr Putin's protege and the junior member of Russia's ruling duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Major News] Reference
In actuality, however, we are now being ruled by a duumvirate, by two kings, a two-headed monster: King Newt and King Kristol. From Wordnik.com. [Political Class Dismissed] Reference
The thing is that the Medvedev-Putin "tandemocracy" is neither a democratic division of power, nor is it an efficiently functioning duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [EurasiaNet] Reference
But for reasons which elude analysis, none of the three delegates hit it off with the duumvirate who were spinning the threads of the world's destinies. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
Nono really feared this duumvirate, for the twins had more than once given him to understand that he would "catch it" when they got to be the oldest at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden House] Reference
The people soon became exasperated by the haughtiness and insolence of the duumvirate, and murmurs growing deeper and louder, ere long led to an insurrection. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire of Russia] Reference
Anxious to terminate a life of truth in the formalities of honor, colonel Hayne solicited, in a second letter to the stern duumvirate, permission to die like a soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States] Reference
Fayette, who, possessed of the armed force, and who saw in Mirabeau the whole of the moral force, smiled at the idea of a duumvirate, which could assume to themselves empire. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference
Unless you accept some kind of Fukuyama-style end of history for operating systems, then the Microsoft/Apple duumvirate is not the last word-but it's going to be harder for contenders that don't have the BBC's blessing. From Wordnik.com. [po-ru.com] Reference
But think for a minute what message all those successes would send to future presidents and vice presidents and their subordinates: If you break the law, the punishment shall be that the duumvirate immediately following yours will not break the law. From Wordnik.com. [Teknosis] Reference
President Obama has embraced the national security psychology of the Bush-Cheney duumvirate not only in matters of secrecy, but the entire range of civil liberties abuses justified by a purported global and endless war against international terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Buck Naked Politics] Reference
The controversies of the day had sown discord among literary men; Schiller and Goethe, associating together, had provoked ill-will from a host of persons, who felt the justice of such mutual preference, but liked not the inferences to be drawn from it; and eyed this intellectual duumvirate, however meek in the discharge of its functions and the wearing of its honours, with jealousy and discontent. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference
But Putin, in fact, rules Russia, though we are speaking about duumvirate. ". From Wordnik.com. [The BEING HAD Times] Reference
Russia's ruling Putin-Medvedev duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The duumvirate was replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits and Votes] Reference
Cameron-Osborne duumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Word of the day: "duumvirate". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Diifitlity, dudilitV I leader, guide, condudleur,.m. duumvirate, di. jmv'irat m.pi. duumvirs, (magi. From Wordnik.com. [Dizionario portatile italiano, inglese, e francese] Reference
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