1.   Matos Azocar was twice submitted to motions in Congress aimed at ousting the minister, the architect of government plans to cut spending.

2.   He had hinted he might be willing to stay on if some ministers were ousted.

3.   His Cabinet had resigned en masse to avert a move by Muslim fundamentalist lawmakers to oust a minister, who also is a member of the ruling family.

4.   However, Hariri has hinted he might be willing to accept to stay on as premier if quarrelsome ministers are ousted.

5.   Its application was suspended indefinitely when Hun Sen violently ousted his co-prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a bloody coup.

6.   Last year he resigned as an adviser to the government of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin when several reformist ministers were ousted.

7.   Some deputies also want to oust the ministers of security and ethnic affairs.

8.   The deal collapsed when the co-prime minister they were negotiating with, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, was ousted by his rival, Hun Sen, in a bloody coup.

9.   The firing comes three months after two other ministers were ousted for their fierce opposition to the way in which Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines was privatized.

10.   The government won the vote, but the disclosures sparked a run on the bank and led to a Cabinet reshuffle ousting ministers too closely associated with the scandal.