41.   Without such a move, airlines would get an iron grip on the best slots at the best airports on both sides of the Atlantic.

42.   First-half goals from defender Rio Ferdinand, striker Michael Owen and Emile Heskey gave England an iron grip which they never relinquished.

43.   It was only when his personal coach Wang Guoxin ran on to podium and told him to drop the bar that he loosened his iron grip.

44.   De Klerk immediately relaxed the iron grip of his predecessor and began the first moves towards the post-apartheid era.

45.   The militia, headed by former Shevardnadze ally Dzhaba Yoseliani, have an iron grip over Georgia, partly due the organized crime rings said to control them.

46.   Unlike Rwanda, however, Tutsis have for decades held an iron grip over the military and only recently agreed a share in power for moderate Hutus.

47.   While Taiwan has been in the iron grip of the KMT Party for many years, the DPP and the New Party have gained ground.

48.   No reliable polling has been done to date in Serb-held Bosnia, which is heavily influenced by its television, over which Karadzic keeps an iron grip.

49.   Serbia has been repeatedly criticised for exerting an iron grip on the media, particularly television.

50.   The elections are crucial for Milosevic, since local authorities often control the media, over which he has maintained an iron grip in order to stay in power.