Both Sharping, who lost in federal elections against conservative Chancellor Helmut Kohl last year, and Lafontaine, who was defeated by Kohl following unification in 1990, appear unlikely to pull the SPD together.
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A porter's " lodge " ( work and storage space ) occupied the northern two-thirds of the space, while a narrow, sharping winding back stairs allowed servants to access the Second Floor.
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Sharping said based on what he'd seen on the ground, Bosnia's main problems no longer concern the military, but civil reconstruction, the lack of cooperation between the ethnic groups and protecting security.
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NATO defense ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels again starting Wednesday, and Sharping's comments could renew frowns over Germany's new center-left coalition, now that Fischer was forced to admit his suggestion got nowhere.
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Sharping said the opposition's withdrawal of the complaint was a victory for the Schroeder's government, adding that he has no doubt there will be enough money to fund the remainder of the planes in the 2003 budget.
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Rudolf Sharping, 48-year-old parliamentary chairman of the Social Democrats, might be released from hospital this Thursday, but full recovery may take longer than had been expected, his party office said . ( to-lak)
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Backing down in court could, however, weaken Sharping's position going into a weekend meeting in Munich with his counterparts from around the world, including U . S . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to talk about the fight against terrorism and NATO expansion.
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Under pressure to remove the matter from Germany's highest court, Defense Minister Rudolf Sharping assured the court that parliament's decision last week that it would guarantee funding was intended as a " political signal " to allies, but was not binding.
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The mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag said that Oct . 22 elections in Berlin, which is currently governed by a grand-coalition of the two biggest parties, the conservative Christian Democrats and the SPD, will decide Sharping's fate even before the party convention.
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However to his dismay Jiang learns after one such game ( by examining the discards ) that, having been together for so long, Chen has learnt enough of his own card sharping skills to be able to beat him and that it has been her that has been throwing the games in his favour.
