21.   Part of that confidence stems from the ability of the Irish to say publicly that they like things about their former ruler.

22.   The documents might help the Haitian government disarm and prosecute those who played a role in campaigns of terror conducted or condoned by the former military rulers.

23.   The fight against the Taliban in Kandahar was pressed not by the Northern Alliance, however, but by tribal leaders who took up arms against their former rulers.

24.   The largest number of foreign visitors have tended to come from Britain, the former colonial ruler of Zimbabwe.

25.   The request ignited a debate in Britain and Chile and throughout the West on the wisdom and fairness of bringing former rulers to trial for human-rights violations.

26.   The trial was conducted here because the accused had fled to Belgium, the former colonial ruler of Rwanda.

27.   These included the seat of Mrs. Zia, who is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, a former military ruler of Bangladesh.

28.   They have remained without formal schooling, and few speak French, the language of the former colonial rulers.

29.   Westerners scoff at the notion that Zimbabwe might be threatened by its white minority or by Britain, the former colonial ruler.

30.   When South Korea was trying to rebuild the economy after the Korean War, the former military rulers adopted the Japanese model of credit allocation.