1.   It was a radical departure from the past, an interlude of democracy in an otherwise unbroken line of authoritarian rule.

2.   The design of the building is a radical departure from tradition.

3.   The country is about to take a radical departure by electing a woman as its new president.

4.   In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods, and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods.

5.   And this marks a radical departure from policy established by Miss Mary, a teetotaler, who allowed no cooking with spirits.

6.   Barak was considering these ideas which represented a radical departure from established Israeli policy that Jerusalem was the united, undivided capital of Israel.

7.   Block grants would be a radical departure because they would eliminate individual entitlement to benefits and would give states more flexibility in deciding how to use the money.

8.   A much more radical departure in fertility research is emerging meanwhile in the laboratory of developmental biologist John Eppig at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

9.   A radical departure from recent seasons.

10.   But conservatism almost by definition is apt to oppose radical departures from a longstanding moral consensus about not taking human life.