1.   By contrast Sidonius Apollinaris, the most prolific writer of the second half of the century, implies almost total continuity with the imperial past.

2.   Although he speaks to Turks through the mist of their imperial past, his message is thoroughly modern.

3.   Despite the salute to the imperial past, Vienna has become a livelier, more international city in the last few years.

4.   He also faces the challenges of holding together a Britain that is growing less white and less beholden to tradition in a nation still wrestling with its imperial past.

5.   If Moscow wants to shed its imperial past while keeping order in its disorderly environs, it will be wise to accept international sanction and supervision for its peacekeepers.

6.   The Bolsheviks blew up the original church and built a swimming pool in its place in their effort to demean the Russian Orthodox Church and its imperial past.

7.   The furor in Japan over the prize was soon exceeded by another, when Oe declined the Japenese Order of Culture because it is associated with the imperial past.

8.   Britons were even hazier about the great battles and figures of the imperial past.

9.   In the event, the transition phase lasted four years, during which Ethiopia broke with its imperial past.

10.   British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd told his country Saturday to forget its imperial past and learn that its future lies in the European Union.