1.   Among more recent measures, the police are enforcing an administrative rule that prohibits protesters from advocating an election boycott.

2.   Most importantly, an election boycott in Jordan will damage the cause of political institutionalization, the elusive quality in the search for stability across the Arab world.

3.   Pribylovsky said he is against an election boycott, which he claimed would make it easier for the Kremlin to tamper with unused ballots and falsify the results.

4.   The appointments would allow Arafat to grant Hamas leaders positions in the government despite their election boycott, and thus broaden the public support for the council.

5.   The authorities have arrested Sri Bintang Pamungkas, a dissident former legislator who had sent out greeting cards calling for an election boycott.

6.   The guerrillas have justified the election boycott as a way to halt the false promises, political favors and corruption that have been endemic here.

7.   The men had been detained for six months without trial for organizing an election boycott.

8.   The opposition Awami League, led by Sheik Hasina Wazed, led the election boycott after the Zia government refused demands that a neutral caretaker government conduct the poll.

9.   Opposition parties had threatened an election boycott earlier in the week.

10.   A prominent dissident who called last year for an election boycott has been charged with subversion, a crime punishable by death.