This was planned partially as a provocation, in order to identify potentially disloyal citizens who might wish to join the Bolsheviks' enemies.

It enabled Rome to control and tax trade and may have prevented potentially disloyal new subjects of Roman rule from communicating with their independent brethren to the north and coordinating revolts.

An answer to this was the widespread use of ethnic cleansing to ensure that mono-ethnic territories could be established without opposition from potentially disloyal minority groups.

Disloyal or potentially disloyal elements within the National Guard and student groups were purged; increased salaries, perquisites, and positions of political power were offered to the loyal majority.

After a coup against General Noriega failed in March 1988, he purged the army leadership of potentially disloyal officers.

These have invariably been detected by Mr. Hussein's closest aides and then manipulated to identify and execute potentially disloyal commanders.

The Slavic speakers that stayed in northwestern Greece were regarded as a potentially disloyal minority and came under severe pressure, with restrictions on their movements, cultural activities and political rights.

"So you hope by integrating the potentially disloyal officers, you can limit their ability to do damage."

"Son, there is no doubt in my mind but what you are potentially disloyal."

As a practising Christian, Kotva was regarded as politically suspect and potentially disloyal by the Czechoslovak communist administration; he was permitted to teach only in remote rural regions.