1.   AMMAN - Jordanians absorbing the shockwaves of their political earthquake back their new young ruler, Abdullah.

2.   France has suffered a political earthquake and is waiting to see how strong the secondary tremors turn out to be.

3.   In Spain, a cease-fire announced by the Basque separatist group ETA set off a political earthquake.

4.   Iran has been jolted by a political earthquake as powerful as the geologic upheavals that have rocked it in recent years.

5.   It hardly qualifies as a political earthquake or even a minor tremor.

6.   It was the biggest political earthquake of our time on Capitol Hill.

7.   The French Revolution was of course a stupendous event, one that formed a template for subsequent political earthquakes, or at least a basis for comparison.

8.   The resulting stress seems to be leading toward a political earthquake.

9.   The sense that a political earthquake may be in the making here was evident in the moods and comments of the principal candidates Monday.

10.   This advice is being ignored by Republicans who sense a political earthquake approaching in November.