11.   Rather than open up the rigid political system after the gulf war, the response of the Saudi leadership has been to muzzle all dissent.

12.   The Defense Ministry is part of a rigid state system and military reform is a component part of reforms going on throughout the entire country.

13.   The food shortage in North Korea may become perennial, experts say, unless the rigid Communist economic system changes dramatically.

14.   The harder line from Tehran may have been prompted in part by scathing statements from the Taliban, who have imposed on Afghanistan a far more rigid Islamic system.

15.   The outcome might not be democracy but theocracy, the kind of rigid system in place in Iran.

16.   Tirana was once off-limits to peasants, who were forbidden by the rigid Communist system to move from their villages.

17.   Against overwhelming forces, including the rigid legal system and a conspiracy, they try to bring justice to the fore.

18.   All of them came out of a rigid Russian system that Fedorov said made them stronger.

19.   Habibie has pledged to overhaul the rigid political system left by his authoritarian predecessor, Suharto, who quit in May after a nationwide wave of riots and protests.

20.   Habibie has pledged to revamp the rigid political system left behind by his authoritarian predecessor and former mentor, Suharto.