| 11. | Diplomats scan the press for any hint of change and pump junior officers for information about the ruling clique.
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| 12. | It is an unremarkable provincial town where some relatives of the ruling clique still live, at least part time.
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| 13. | This diffusion of blame has been used skillfully by the ruling clique in the past year to nail down two messages.
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| 14. | "The ruling clique will always have accomplices, " says Tomiwa Oyebolu, a pro-democracy activist.
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| 15. | The ruling clique found that in Andrei Babitsky, a Russian Radio Liberty reporter who filed embarrassing facts from behind battle lines.
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| 16. | In August, two members of Iraq's ruling clique and their wives, both daughters of Saddam, defected to Jordan.
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| 17. | Iraq's large Shiite community has tense relations with the country's ruling clique from the rival and mainstream Sunni sect.
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| 18. | In some cases, the entire ruling clique is composed of a council of leaders who are the only members of the clique.
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| 19. | In the years since the uprising, though, the ruling clique can point to few successes other than its continuing grip on power.
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| 20. | :" It appears that Allah decided to punish the ruling clique of Turkey by depriving them of wisdom and judgment . " }}
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