11.   Even if Habibie is determined to carry out a political transition, which many still doubt, he will face difficult hurdles.

12.   He said he was leaving Mexico feeling optimistic about his homeland, which is at the beginning of the first peaceful and democratic political transition in its history.

13.   Looking to the future, the pope will try to give the church a wider role in whatever political transition takes place after Castro leaves the scene.

14.   Much of the English content these last few months has dealt with the forthcoming political transition to self-government for the Inuit.

15.   Most analysts assume that Primakov is aiming above all to secure the loyalty of a large and unruly bureaucracy during a time of political transition.

16.   Nixon went to China at a time of political transition.

17.   No one knows how the political transition is going to happen here.

18.   Next, the provisional council would form a traditional administration and a plan for a political transition to take no more than two years.

19.   Observers and politicians, on the right and the left, agree that the confusion in Italian politics was probably inevitable, given the demands of a political transition.

20.   One reason why these problems exist is because Beijing is in an ongoing political transition.