1.   After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.

2.   There was never much doubt about which language the colonial rulers would use in local administration.

3.   As a co-host of the World Cup with its former colonial ruler, South Korea was bound to measure itself most urgently against the success of Japan.

4.   Belgium, the former colonial ruler of Zaire, and France, anther historical ally, have distanced themselves from the Mobutu regime.

5.   African leaders hold few notions as sacred as the usually arbitrary borders drawn by and inherited from their European colonial rulers, because those frontiers define their power.

6.   Britain, the former colonial ruler of Zimbabwe, has been particularly critical of the violence and intimidation there.

7.   But for the other ex-Soviet states in Central Asia and their former colonial ruler, Russia, the turmoil in Tajikistan is their worst nightmare.

8.   But to say mutilation of millions of young women is a sanctified hands-off local custom apes colonial rulers who said the same about slavery and widow-burning.

9.   Foreign executives lived in exclusive compounds in the oil cities of Tampico, Coatzacoalcos and Poza Rica, floating apart from the general population like colonial rulers.