21.   Both men have now been evicted from power, and senior military commanders from that era have been replaced, but the aggressive approach they favored apparently remains.

22.   Bratton faced resistance from senior commanders in recent months when he proposed including critiques of past department policies in booklets describing his new strategies.

23.   But in a public statement, a senior Philippine commander said the military was still operating on the assumption that the Burnhams were on Basilan.

24.   But in this conservative region of Afghanistan, senior commanders routinely refuse to acknowledge help they receive from American special forces.

25.   But it won him points among senior military commanders, who have been dubious about Rais because of his lack of military service.

26.   But many U.N. officials, including Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose, the senior U.N. military commander in Bosnia, warned that the forthcoming talks will be exceedingly difficult.

27.   But Muhammad Zali, another senior commander for Shirzai, said that the Taliban officials might be lying and buying time to allow Omar to escape.

28.   Diplomats said other senior Indonesian military commanders were also in Dili.

29.   Dostum was a senior commander of the Northern Alliance, which joined with U.S. forces to drive the Taliban from power late last year.

30.   During the Cold War, senior commanders like Butler studied the personalities of their Soviet counterparts by name and habits, and tracked their whereabouts every day.