21.   Fears an authoritarian regime would reverse free-market reforms are unrealistic, some investors said.

22.   Harassment, aggression, unemployment, arrest and torture represent daily threats to reporters whose stories or opinions might not be to the taste of Arab authoritarian regimes.

23.   In addition, democratic regimes can involve the political opposition in support of a market economy more effectively than can authoritarian regimes.

24.   In recent years South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand have replaced authoritarian regimes with fledgling democracies.

25.   Intolerance of free expression remains despite the fall of authoritarian regimes, and so do corrupt or ineffective police and justice systems.

26.   It supported authoritarian regimes throughout Central and South America during and after the Cold War in defense of its economic and political interests.

27.   Many commentators on Arabic television and in newspapers have speculated that the protests could turn against the authoritarian Arab regimes.

28.   Many were schooled in the West, most were forged by struggles not against colonialism but the corrupt authoritarian regimes that followed.

29.   Neither Israel nor authoritarian Arab regimes seem to be interested in the emergence of a democratic Palestinian state.

30.   Neither Israel nor authoritarian Arab regimes seems interested in the emergence of a democratic Palestinian state.