51.   But she too is an opponent of the provisional legislature.

52.   But they are still negotiating for permission to enter the building and use its balcony as a podium for a speech denouncing the provisional legislature.

53.   But the Beijing-backed provisional legislature passed laws earlier this month that curtail some civil liberties.

54.   China has set up a temporary provisional legislature, saying the existing one was elected under rule changes introduced by Patten without its consent.

55.   China says a provisional legislature is needed to fill the vacuum until a new one is elected.

56.   Cheng chose to portray the provisional legislature as a temporary aberration.

57.   China has cold-shouldered other opponents of the provisional legislature.

58.   China has promised the provisional legislature will be replaced by an elected one after a year.

59.   China has set up a temporary provisional legislature, saying the existing one must go because it was elected under rule changes introduced without its consent.

60.   China says the laws can be rewritten by the provisional legislature it has set up to replace the elected one.