11.   Being at the receiving end, the people at large are no doubt the best judge of whether public servants and their political masters measure up.

12.   What constitutes economic policy in the minds of our political masters has not kept pace with what is going on in the rest of the world.

13.   Bosnian government troops and their allies were poised for new successes Wednesday as their political masters in Sarajevo hedged on a ceasefire with the Bosnian Serbs.

14.   The Republicans now face the prospect of more sparring with a political master who has managed to steal their thunder on a host of issues.

15.   The United Nations called Sunday for the military leaders to let their political masters decide on the major political issues.

16.   Once they were faithful mouthpieces of their Soviet political masters.

17.   The new envoy, Mohamed Sahnoun, is an Algerian who briefly represented the United Nations in Somalia but was pulled out after criticising his political masters.