1.   His policy risks fracturing the coalition.

2.   But Bush, who regularly accuses Democrats of holding up free trade, is as responsible as anyone for fracturing the coalition behind it.

3.   But when it came to run for election this year, the coalition fractured and ran several presidential candidates.

4.   Given those needs, one must question why American leadership consistently chooses paths that promise to fracture this coalition.

5.   Rather, they seem intended to open wide loopholes or, alternatively, fracture the coalition that supports the bill.

6.   The ideas being discussed by Bush and Norwood could fracture the coalition of employers and insurers opposing federal legislation to regulate managed health care.

7.   Their purpose is not to improve the bill but to fracture the coalition that favors reform.

8.   This time, the coalition is fractured and there is only lukewarm support in public and somewhat stronger backing in private.

9.   This year, though, budget cuts have fractured the coalition, as competing farm and social program activists battle for shrinking parts of the budget pie.

10.   The four-party ruling coalition is fractured by rifts, and dialogue between parties on different sides of the political divide is almost nonexistent.