11.   Despite his authoritarian ways, Franjo Tudjman enjoyed a symbiotic alliance with Washington that helped him obtain investments and military aid.

12.   For all his authoritarian ways, Tudjman is respected in Croatia as the man who led the country to independence and vanquished rebel Serbs.

13.   Foreign critics attack his authoritarian ways and bad treatment of minority Serbs, and he is widely seen as indifferent to the woes of his impoverished people.

14.   He is under increasing international pressure over his authoritarian ways and his treatment of Serbs, but that is unlikely to affect the vote inside Croatia.

15.   His alliance with Montenegro has been crumbling in disputes over federal assets, ministerial posts in the federal government, foreign policy and his authoritarian ways.

16.   It reflects growing European concern about the authoritarian ways of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman.

17.   Meciar, who is under fire from the United States and the European Union for his authoritarian ways, says he wants Slovakia in both the EU and NATO.

18.   Often the government has prevailed over a domestic threat, only to continue authoritarian ways that generated the opposition in the first place.

19.   Often the government has prevailed over a domestic threat, only to continue the authoritarian ways that generated the opposition in the first place.

20.   Stays in Syria, for instance, tend to be short, reflecting disapproval with its authoritarian ways and what the State Department concludes is support for terrorism.