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UN peacekeepers are there trying to safeguard a peace deal that is fraying at the edges, with warnings the world's newest country is about to plunge into another civil war.

In some cases, it’s all internalized; they’re so into being “above the fray” that they’re unwilling to render judgments that might alienate Trump and his voters and subject them to accusations of having “taken sides.”

We were promised lower bills, better infrastructure, less red tape and investment in a system fraying at the edges.

As these backstage movies and shows are made by insiders, one assumes there’s some truth to them, though the implication is that, in seeing things how they are, the creators somehow float above the fray.

He already tried once before to tie it, flying into the fray for a floater that bounced off the back iron.