11.   His detractors say the former coup leader is dragging the country into dictatorship and mob rule.

12.   Macapagal-Arroyo needs a friendly Congress to pass legislation needed to drag the country from its economic doldrums.

13.   Rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, which have dragged the country through five years of civil war, had threatened to disturb the elections.

14.   Rebels who have dragged the country through five years of civil war have threatened to kill voters.

15.   Sociologists note that there was a sense of personal isolation between Cambodians before the country was dragged into the Vietnam War.

16.   Some students also painted their faces and held street plays, depicting corrupt officials who dragged their country into suffering.

17.   While European nations solidified plans to send soldiers to Albania in an international aid force, new reports of gang murders Thursday dragged the country further into anarchy.

18.   He has brushed them aside on the grounds that such a move would drag the country into uncertainty.

19.   Algerians point the finger of blame at the International Monetary Fund, which has imposed a draconian structural adjustment programme to drag the country into the market economy.

20.   Ecevit has categorically brushed aside increasing calls for his resignation and early elections, arguing that such a move would drag the country towards an uncertain fate.