1.   Grand rabbis and their successors are held in a particular reverence that brooks no challenges from their followers.

2.   It was, Bolick says, a debate dominated by liberals who brooked no challenge to their dogma.

3.   The arrests and charges appeared to be a particularly vigorous form of politics by a leader who brooks no challenges.

4.   The coach would brook no challenge to his authority.

5.   Yeltsin has never brooked challenges to his authority, as his repeated reshufflings of government show.

6.   And democracy at the village level has relatively little impact on higher levels of government, where the Communist Party brooks no challenge to its monopoly.

7.   On both sides of the front line, Afghans find themselves living under rulers who brook no challenge to their authority.