21.   It was a peaceful transition, as should happen when a man passes from one state of grace into another.

22.   Its peaceful transition to majority rule and a booming, liquid stock market looked promising.

23.   Never in its history has Russia had a peaceful transition of power from one democratically elected leader to another.

24.   Peaceful transitions are as foreign to the Arab world as rain forests.

25.   Recently the world has been giddy with love for this faraway country that managed a peaceful transition to black majority rule.

26.   Since then, it has had only one peaceful transition of power, and what passed for government institutions have melted down.

27.   Six months of U.N. military occupation, followed by a large U.N. presence, has permitted a peaceful transition from military thuggery to elected constitutional rule.

28.   Such people-to-people contacts, American officials say, will enhance the prospects for a peaceful political transition to democracy.

29.   Thank the peaceful political transition to majority rule for that.

30.   The euphoria of the peaceful transition from white supremacist government has worn off, and South Africans are beginning to carp, like citizens of any other democracy.