1.   After that, any chief minister daring to build his own political base stood in danger of being turned out.

2.   He was rescued by chief minister Robert Harley, who put him to work as a government spy and propagandist.

3.   Sharad Pawar, chief minister of Maharashtra, is by far the strongest Congress state leader.

4.   In the nineteenth century, on the other hand, there was a significant amount of direct personal contact between them, or at least between their chief ministers.

5.   The chief minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, said that the campaigners had no right to come and stir up trouble in the state.

6.   As political leaders rushed to the scene, the chief minister of Haryana, Bhajan Lal, ordered three days of official mourning and impaneled an inquiry.

7.   At every stop, she depicts Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the current chief minister and leader of the rival party, as the man responsible for her legal woes.

8.   David Trimble, the pro-agreement Unionist who would become chief minister in the new government, needs a gesture on decommissioning to maintain control of the Assembly.

9.   David Trimble, the chief minister of the province, says that he will resign on Sunday unless the IRA begins to disarm.

10.   H.D. Deve Gowda of the centrist National Front alliance, who is chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, is expected to succeed Vajpayee.