1.   He has a moral stature which comes from being wholly untainted by the previous regime.

2.   It sees them as little more than rural ghettoes designed by previous hated white regimes to keep blacks and whites apart.

3.   That is what it would be paying under the previous regime of the last Labour Government.

4.   The nature of the privileges suggests the rigour of the previous regime, which was still slow to change in many unions.

5.   The fabric of society has been deeply damaged by the previous regime.

6.   Gen. Oscar Botero, the Defence Minister under the previous regime, was retained in his post.

7.   The churches themselves began reorganizing their affairs, often removing those officials who had close contact with the previous regime.