1.   They wanted to transform the country into a modern democratic state.

2.   And the triumph of democracy and free markets is transforming countries from Europe to Latin America, and from Asia to Africa.

3.   A reverence for monarchy has remained strong in Asia despite the modernizing trends that have transformed many countries in the region economically, socially and politically.

4.   All four, however, have past associations that undermine their promises to transform the country.

5.   But if women had the political clout of men, she says the country would be transformed.

6.   But his action, while welcome, does not transform the country into a democracy or end the political crisis there.

7.   But Saturday he seemed mostly impressed by the economic and social changes that have transformed a country he lived in during the World War II occupation and Communist rule.

8.   Electric power companies, railroads, airlines and television and radio manufacturers transformed our country, but most of the early investors lost their shirts.

9.   If you go and look for yourself today at East Germany, as I have done, you will see that the country has been transformed.

10.   It was just one of many datelines of horror that transformed the country into a television-age Armageddon.