Last autumn a short-lived coalition among the old regime, Islamic fundamentalists and fledgling democrats dissolved in mistrust, clan rivalries and warlordism, plunging the republic into civil war.

Two subsequent elections were held in 1951 and 1953 where the Nationalists formed short-lived coalitions with the Malta Workers Party (which, over the years, eventually disintegrated).

He is no longer as significant as he was in Mr. Berlusconi's first, short-lived coalition, whose collapse was set off by his defection after only seven months.

He was instrumental in securing the short-lived coalition between UNIP and the ANC in January 1963.

The party entered a short-lived coalition with the Socialist Party before entering the centre-right Democratic Alliance.

On 26 July 1977, he, as the leader of a short-lived coalition between the Janata Party and the left, became the fourth Chief Minister of the state.

In November the Left SRs, now formally established as a separate party, entered negotiations for the formation of what proved a short-lived coalition with the Bolsheviks.

By the summer of 1885, Anglican bishops, freethinkers and socialists found themselves able to work together in a short-lived coalition against sexual abuse of children.

In 1952 the party was part of a short-lived coalition with the Chadian Progressive Party, the Civic Action Front of Chad.

There was a dramatic increase in support for the PKI but no party managed more than a quarter of the votes, and so short-lived coalitions continued.