1.   Dozens of workers were sent packing because of harsh new environmental rules.

2.   After all, Munib notes, the Taliban held no monopoly on harsh rule in Central Asia and among Islamic states.

3.   But in Afghanistan, they also celebrated the return of freedom and frivolity after the harsh rule of the Taliban.

4.   But when Argentina triumphed, the military dictatorship then in power used the victory to justify its harsh rule.

5.   But within months, civil war plunged it into chaos, and Indonesia invaded, annexing the country a year later and imposing a harsh new rule.

6.   For a quarter of a century, the island stifled under the harsh rule of a weak emir and his wily brother, the chief vizier.

7.   For centuries, empires and despots have conquered this land, and subjugated the Serbs to harsh tyrannical rule.

8.   Many Afghans have suffered under the harsh rule of the Taliban.

9.   Russians have a popular saying, spawned during centuries under the harsh rule of czars, and decades more under the authoritarian regimes of the communists.

10.   Such scenes have become part of life under the harsh new rule of the Taliban, the Muslim religious movement that seized power in Afghanistan last month.