1.   A rising tide of popular opposition to a single European currency is sweeping the continent.

2.   A wave of multiparty politics swept the continent at the turn of the decade, but now seems menaced in many places.

3.   Chaos, Kaplan argues, will sweep the continent as populations explode and poorly managed societies fall apart in a cascade of dominoes.

4.   Somewhere around that time, a teen-ager in Melbourne, Australia, found himself interviewed on TV about ABBA-mania as the wave was sweeping the continent.

5.   Distanced from missionaries, autonomous of large Western-based churches and often combining African traditions with Christian rites, these churches have swept the continent.

6.   During the debate, Mugabe, speaking for the Organization of African Unity, said a wave of democracy was sweeping the continent.

7.   The latest European invasion came with a wave of privatizations of government companies that is sweeping the continent.

8.   The two leaders discussed democracy, the role of civil organizations and the AIDS pandemic sweeping the continent.

9.   They were also the African countries that the Clinton administration had been promoting as part of a new wave of change sweeping the continent.

10.   They were also the African countries which the Clinton Administration had been promoting as part of a new wave of change sweeping the continent.