1.   The government coalition, provided it stays together, has an advantage in organisation and money.

2.   And now, along with alarming anti-immigrant cant from the government coalition have come troubling cuts in social services.

3.   Arab parties have been conspicuously left out of government coalitions.

4.   As a key swing vote in creating government coalitions, the party has been successful at winning government money for Shas schools and welfare institutions.

5.   Before the session officially started Wednesday, legislators from the left-leaning government coalition assembled on the Senate floor, carrying black-and-white photographs of the dissidents killed.

6.   Alili is a member of the Democratic Party of Albanians, which is part of the government coalition, yet he was clearly unhappy about the latest offensive.

7.   But even though the Green leader, Dominique Voynet, serves as environment minister, the party says it is being ignored on vital questions inside the government coalition.

8.   But other members of the government coalition have criticized Berlusconi directly.

9.   But real power within the government coalition remains with Slavic ministers who oppose compromise.

10.   Compared with the plight of ethnic minorities elsewhere in the Balkans, Albanians in Macedonia are treated relatively well, and even form part of the government coalition.