Compounds

1. The deputies cited dissatisfaction with party management, particularly chairman and founder Viktor Uspaskich, as the reason for the split.
(The Baltic Times, p.1, title of the article „Seven Labour MPs break from party, increase ruling coalition’s vulnerability”, 4th May, 2006)
(chair + man = noun + noun)

2. Loreta Grauziniene, a party elder and the designated labor and social affairs minister, said the lawmakers who left the group „do not know what they are doing”.
(The Baltic Times, p.1, title of the article „Seven Labour MPs break from party, increase ruling coalition’s vulnerability”, 4th May, 2006)
(law + makers = noun + noun)

3. Ansip used a sports metaphor to illustrate his point: „Just as a great athlete can tell the right time to bow out after a major victory, a real statesman knows that a timely decision to step down will pave the way and open up opportunities for younger candidates.”
(The Baltic Times, p.1, title of the article „Ansip says it’s time for Ruutel to go”, 4th May, 2006)
(state + man = noun + noun)

4. Grass fires sear Latvian countryside.
(The Baltic Times, p.1, title of the article, 4th May, 2006)
(country + side = noun + noun)

5. After weeks of relative calm, a new wave of criticism over last year’s $5 billion gas pipeline deal between Russia and Germany has erupted as top European Union officials begin to rethink its strategic energy partnership with Russia.
(The Baltic Times, p.2, title of the article „Gas pipeline triggers new blacklash”, 4th May, 2006)
(pipe + line = noun + noun;
partner + ship = noun + noun;
black + lash = adjective + noun)

6. The European Commision moved to defuse the tension on May 2, with a spokesman saying, „The language employed was certainly neither helpful nor proportionate to the problem.”
(The Baltic Times, p.2, title of the article „Gas pipeline triggers new blacklash”, 4th May, 2006)
(spoke + man = verb + noun)

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