1.   Ethnic unrest is spreading throughout the south-western republics of the former Soviet Union.

2.   There was much criticism of the use of conscripts in such exercises as the Chernobyl clean-up operation and peacekeeping duties in areas of ethnic unrest.

3.   Tanks are patrolling the capital of Georgia after the latest outbreak of ethnic unrest.

4.   It will threaten our allies and destabilize a region where shifting frontiers and ethnic unrest have long been a cause of conflict among larger powers.

5.   Of course, Buj Flores quickly adds, Mexicans and Americans are not doomed to live out centuries of Balkan-style ethnic unrest.

6.   Ordinary Turkmens used to look somewhat smugly at Russia and other former Soviet republics, where democracy and free markets appeared to spawn mainly ethnic unrest and organized crime.

7.   Burundi has long been wracked by ethnic unrest, which is currently worsening.

8.   But many Hindus are concerned that the new government will create ethnic unrest.

9.   But the government will be hard pressed to put a lid on ethnic unrest in a country in which politics is very much organised along ethnic lines.

10.   Conservatives in the Politburo had backed him, in part because of fears over the ethnic unrest.