1.   The public seems more worried these days by its culture of partisanship, pettiness, revenge and the resulting paralysis.

2.   Those divisions and the resulting paralysis, they say, reflect underlying political shifts that may be difficult for any secretary-general, or the United Nations, to address.

3.   Many blame Dubinin for failing to avoid the crisis and the resulting paralysis of the banking system.

4.   Ousmane and Amadou failed to get on and the resulting political paralysis ended in the military coup last January.