1.   The military has promised to yield power.

2.   Attracting the most concern, traditionally proud France may have to yield power to Germany, whose population is half again as large.

3.   But opponents asserted that the federal government was taking a vast risk by yielding so much power.

4.   Commercial flights to Haiti had been halted as part of the sanctions intended to force the military to yield power.

5.   Commercial flights to Haiti had been halted as part of the sanctions aimed at forcing the military to yield power.

6.   Greece, the proud birthplace of democracy, now finds itself immobilized by the despotic refusal of its gravely ill prime minister, Andreas Papandreou, to yield power.

7.   He should temporarily yield his powers to his elected running mate, Vice President Humberto de la Calle, pending impeachment proceedings.

8.   That left some local officeholders with a choice between yielding power and accepting offers of tactical support from the National Front.

9.   The battles began after the generals who ruled South Korea started to yield power a few years ago.

10.   The Milosevic machine, a network of loyal security chiefs, sanctions-busting criminals and political apparatchiks, is unlikely to yield power gracefully.