1.   An explosive offensive by Chechen fighters over the last week has left Russian military forces shattered and has badly rattled the government of Boris Yeltsin.

2.   The decision by Ms. Nicholson, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, clearly rattled the government, and left it facing some unsettling parliamentary arithmetic.

3.   At the same time, his shaky coalition government is being rattled on all sides.

4.   However, his government has been rattled by economic pressures.

5.   The area has been outside the control of Saddam for a decade, and is considered a prime staging ground for rattling his government.

6.   The defeat deeply rattled the government.

7.   The Portuguese government was rattled last November when Mozambique joined the Commonwealth as a way to develop its economy in conjunction with neighboring nations, particularly with South Africa.

8.   The strike ended quickly after the government promised to release hundreds of millions of dollars in back pay, but it rattled the government.