11.   Their offices, ensconced in tastefully restored Spanish colonial mansions, are the forward bases for a new revolution that is altering the face of their nation.

12.   Five small tanks wheeled into position in front of the Dutch colonial mansion as squads of heavily armed presidential guards assembled inside an ornate wrought iron fence.

13.   Irish President Mary McAleese spent a rainy Sunday afternoon lunching with her Singapore counterpart at an opulent British colonial mansion used for government state functions.

14.   The Cabinet ministers were sworn in later Wednesday by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo at Government House, a colonial mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

15.   The military has warned students not to attempt more protests near the Dutch-built colonial mansion.

16.   The pomp and panoply was in the venue, a snow-white Dutch colonial mansion set in manicured lawns and woodland.

17.   Any project which would involve demolition work or the eviction of tenants from their beautiful colonial mansions often becomes a bureacratic nightmare.