11.   In risky foreign markets where other financiers fear to fly, including pariah states such as North Korea and Burma, Peregrine swoops in like a falcon.

12.   Instead of transforming the former Yugoslavia into a Greater Serbia, Milosevic turned his country into a pariah rump state.

13.   In the process, he added, Milosevic will be able to distract Serbs from the many other costs of being a pariah state in Europe.

14.   It sells to pariah states with whom the United States refuses to deal.

15.   Its strategy thus far has been to attempt to turn Iran into a pariah state.

16.   Much of that business appears to be going to South Africa, which is no longer a pariah state politically and has better roads, telephones and law enforcement.

17.   Once a pariah state, South Africa now seems poised to dominate the continent that once shunned its products and leaders.

18.   Since then, Taiwan has been relegated to the sort of strange diplomatic netherworld more often reserved for pariah states.

19.   The city designed and treated them as pariah states, even while they were bright, shining steppingstones for the black middle class.

20.   The former pariah state is now the darling of development banks.