1.   Mr Najibullah regularly offers miniature peace treaties to those bits of Afghan territory in opposition hands.

2.   Its passage into opposition hands is a transforming event in the political life of Mexico.

3.   A Defense Ministry spokesman Thursday said a senior battlefield commander abandoned his post near the Afghan capital, allowing a key military base to fall into opposition hands.

4.   But it was firmly in opposition hands.

5.   Chavez is pulling out all the stops to try to keep the assembly from falling into opposition hands.

6.   Chavez has been promoting candidates from his leftist Patriotic Pole coalition, apparently to keep the assembly from falling into opposition hands.

7.   Jebul Siraj was firmly in opposition hands.

8.   Most of the fighting has been centered in northern Afghanistan, the only part of the country in opposition hands.

9.   The northern land routes are open and in opposition hands, but are considered dangerous because of marauding warlords who routinely hijack convoys.

10.   The opposition presented the victory as a sign of weakening Socialist support throughout the country, although the town was previously in opposition hands.