11.   Even so, Paul refrained from criticizing publicly either the abolition of the fully elected legislature last July or the methods for choosing a new one next May.

12.   Indeed, the heavy hand of China is already evident, throwing out the locally elected legislature and installing another body of its own choosing.

13.   Its chairman, Gladys Li, crisply suited and precise in her manner, told the Preparatory Committee that its plans to abolish the existing elected legislature were illegal.

14.   Next Tuesday, China will abolish the elected legislature and replace it with an appointed council.

15.   Not unreasonably, Fung thought Beijing could win popularity points if it let the elected legislature stay in office.

16.   Since then, however, the British authorities have moved to a fully elected legislature and have adopted numerous guarantees of civil and democratic rights.

17.   So there is no difference between a tax enacted by a democratically elected representative legislature and one imposed by a distant monarchy without even consultation.

18.   The chaos of the streets there is matched only by the mayhem of the democratically elected legislature.

19.   The elected legislature is already gone, to be replaced on Tuesday by an appointed body.

20.   The free-speech guarantees had been the pride of an elected legislature that was disbanded at midnight.