31.  Slowly Indian commanders and their political bosses began to realize that they were confronting something awesome.

32.  The act was passed to protect civil servants from being forced to contribute to their political bosses.

33.  The assassination of the political boss of Leningrad, Sergei M. Kirov, heralded intensified political control and before long extensive purges.

34.  The California political bosses put everybody on the ballot except flat-out, baying-at-the-moon, around-the-bend head cases.

35.  The cause, he said, was clandestine logging, financed by corrupt deals cut by local political bosses in league with army officers.

36.  The Justice Department analysis reportedly contends that the law was designed to shield low-level federal employees from shakedowns at the hands of political bosses.

37.  The political boss sticks his round head out of the back window of his car.

38.  The NATO-led soldiers of the Stabilization Force also detained Milan Kovacevic, a leading political boss in Prijedor.

39.  The political bosses have ruled over their fiefdoms with the full knowledge and consent of the Democratic voters who put them in office and kept them there.

40.  The recommendation, while not decisive, could sway deputies in the lower house, who have become increasingly mindful of the opinion of their local political bosses.