41.   The mass circulation daily Herald scoffed at allegations the government denounced homosexuals while at the same time protecting gays in the ruling party hierarchy.

42.   The meeting was evidently called to discuss policy to combat factionalism and splits in the party hierarchy in the eastern Manicaland province.

43.   Top party leaders who had been jockeying with each other for supremacy in the state party hierarchy flanked Mrs. Gandhi as she spoke in a show of unity.

44.   While most leaders are expected to keep their places at the top of the party hierarchy, the party must choose a new decision-making Central Committee.

45.   Former prime minister Michel Rocard could well come in that category, analysts said, for he has never been fully integrated in the party hierarchy.

46.   In his book, Gorbachev writes about his childhood in the farm-belt region of Stavropol in southern Russia and his struggle to climb the communist party hierarchy.

47.   But he denied that members of the Socialist Party had benefitted individually from the bribes and said the senior party hierarchy had not been informed.

48.   But they maintain they acted alone without the authorisation of the party hierarchy.

49.   The National Party has recently suffered a number of blows, with the withdrawal from party politics of leading younger members of the party hierarchy.

50.   Without the CPP post, Rao will become a virtual nobody in the party hierarchy.