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In bringing landmark sentences against two of the country’s most influential politicians, however, judges have opened the door to a fraught debate over the limits of judicial authority.

Sirikit vanished from public view during the last decade of her life, battling illness and shielded by Thailand's strict royal defamation laws that make discussion of the monarchy fraught with risk.

"I don't want to miss even a one percent chance," said Chung, whose ministry handles fraught relations with the North.

And her workspace is fraught with a tense relationship with her colleague, made all the more tense by the fact that he’s also her therapist.

Immigration, though politically fraught, is an economic lifeline for aging economies.