1.   All day Saturday, tensions ran high as the president alternated intense cabinet meetings with bouts of seclusion.

2.   Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings.

3.   At a cabinet meeting that day she announced stricter measures governing the use of cars in cities during peak pollution periods.

4.   Cabinet meetings were something to be got through, not the place where views were to be aired and Decisions reached.

5.   Field did a complete hatchet job on his former colleague at a cabinet meeting last week.

6.   Heath was sufficiently encouraged to delay surrendering the seals of office and to have two further cabinet meetings.

7.   Mrs Carter pushed for mental health legislation and regularly attended cabinet meetings.

8.   The cabinet meeting broke up after four-and-a-half hours.