1.   Elsewhere, Islamism remains an opposition force only, and, though still potent, is losing ground.

2.   Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt.

3.   Recent protests in the north of the country point up the dilemma the opposition forces are in.

4.   To prevent opposition forces coalescing, the authorities went to great length to separate the various strands of artistic and intellectual thought.

5.   Opposition forces are keeping up the pressure against the government.

6.   Opposition forces did not attempt to prevent his departure and he made his way to Idzhevan in north-eastern Armenia, whose government had offered him temporary asylum.

7.   The MDP leader M. Ensayhan, however, insisted that the opposition forces must now unite and never allow our representatives to be hostages to the old system.

8.   Clashes continued elsewhere in areas to which opposition forces had retreated.

9.   The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce.