1.   Mr Rushdie said that leaders of Labour parties elsewhere in the world had declared overt passionate support for this issue.

2.   Kolbe and Stenholm have been pushing versions of their plan for several years but have generated little overt support in Congress.

3.   Now the Tutsi offensive has shifted to the northern end of Lake Kivu, where the rebel forces are receiving overt support from Rwanda.

4.   Three years before that, Edward Kennedy had been the first to run for president with overt gay support.

5.   It marked a swell in overt support that the government staged its own mass rallies to counter.

6.   Rival Kurds were getting less overt support from Iran.

7.   The enthusiastic crowd, four times the usual size, indicated a swelling in overt support.

8.   The perceived swell in overt support was countered by the government with its own mass rallies in subsequent days.

9.   The size of the crowd marked a swelling of overt support and renewed courage among ordinary Burmese.

10.   The SLORC tried to counter perceptions of a swell in overt support for Suu Kyi by staging mass rallies.