21.   But the wealthy elites and military rulers still seem largely insulated from this pressure.

22.   But they succeeded in persuading the Haitian military rulers to give way only because a U.S. invasion was imminent.

23.   Clinton had been saying for months that the Haitian military rulers had to give way or else.

24.   Diplomats say the military rulers, mostly with jungle warfare as their educational background, have little idea how to run an economy or administer a nation.

25.   Discontent has been spreading in southeastern Nigeria, where the oil is produced but which has been badly neglected by the northern military rulers.

26.   During a weeklong campaign, Obasanjo presented himself as a safe bridge between a future civilian government and military rulers ever ready to seize back power.

27.   During and after that internment, efforts to promote a dialogue between the military rulers and Mrs. Suu Kyi failed.

28.   For his patient work this year in helping our country avoid bloody international confrontations with North Korea and the military rulers of Haiti, Carter deserves the Nobel Prize.

29.   He could not help but make a small dig at the president of Pakistan, pointedly noting that he is a military ruler, not an elected one.

30.   Having lost the election, the military rulers never allowed the parliament to convene and has kept its grip on power.