1.   It was President authoritarian ruler of the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan who gave the stallion to John Major.

2.   And, like the far more virulent antipathy in the streets of the Islamic world, they represent popular feelings that even authoritarian rulers ignore at their peril.

3.   As in Yugoslavia, it took a street uprising to give the ballot backbone and dislodge an authoritarian ruler from power.

4.   For Serbs, Milosevic is an authoritarian ruler, but not a tyrant.

5.   In retrospect, though, the world got a more open Indonesia and one less authoritarian ruler.

6.   Never mind that they come from the authoritarian rulers of China, Cuba and Nigeria.

7.   Others have angered certain authoritarian rulers, the committee said.

8.   The absence of many top world leaders from the funeral symbolizes the international ambivalence many felt toward an authoritarian ruler who was more feared than loved.

9.   The biggest obstacle is not its cultural heritage but the resistance of authoritarian rulers and their apologists.

10.   Bulgarians may opt for radical populism or an authoritarian ruler instead of democracy, he warned.