During his most heated rhetoric he collapsed onto the podium.
It was marked by heated rhetoric between the incumbent and his challengers.
One major concern, officials say, is that more heated religious rhetoric is encouraging young men to leave home to fight in Iraq.
It appears, from last week's decisions, that this heated rhetoric may have had an effect on the court.
The result of this tension has been an increasingly emotional strike, with heated rhetoric on both sides.
Many feared a return to civil war, should the referendum fail because of the increasingly heated rhetoric.
Despite the heated rhetoric of the last few days, there are pressures on both sides to return to the bargaining table.
Meanwhile, the referendum campaign was marked by increasingly heated rhetoric on both sides.
This is a critical point, and one that is often lost in the heated rhetoric of the war on smoking.
Despite the heated rhetoric, opinion in the country was divided.