11.   She is, after all, a dedicated employee of a quarter-century and a consummate insider.

12.   The consummate insider is now an outsider, scrambling to put together an opposition to Putin.

13.   The resurrection of the case highlights the tenacity of Berezovsky, the consummate Kremlin insider in the era of President Boris Yeltsin.

14.   They are insiders, blessed with the opportunity to describe outsider experience in the medium of the consummate insider art.

15.   They were consummate insiders, both masters of the way things are done in Los Angeles city government.

16.   A consummate Capitol Hill insider and a powerful voice on military issues, Aspin brought vast political experience to the challenges of the top defense job.

17.   Republican Franks, a four-term House member, is a consummate political insider offering himself as the regular-guy candidate.