1.   Among those elected was a former dissident, Daniel Chipenda, who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party.

2.   Among those elected was a former dissident.

3.   Adam Michnik, a former dissident who now edits the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, assured fellow journalists that some bars would remain open.

4.   But former East German dissidents argue that the courts have not been aggressive enough.

5.   But the files have also brought heartbreak, as former dissidents have discovered that lawyers, friends and even lovers were Stasi spies.

6.   But this is a novel written by a former dissident from Czechoslovakia, most of whose postwar history does not inspire optimism.

7.   Fax machines are everywhere, and the Internet is on the way, thanks to a former dissident, math professor Phan Dinh Dieu.

8.   Havel, himself a playwright and former anticommunist dissident, declared his support for the rebel journalists, as did several leading artists and writers.

9.   In fact, many of these are former dissidents, or people convicted under Communist-era laws against homosexuality, business, free travel or distribution of bibles.

10.   It is understandable that, as a former dissident, Mbeki is sympathetic to those who challenge authority.