Like you, people of our class had certain suspicions when the ballot box replaced hereditary rule.

The temporary United Nations trusteeship that will replace Serbian rule, including more than 3,000 armed international police, is just gearing up.

In all directions it seemed that scientific investigation was triumphing over ignorance, and scientific analysis replacing rule of thumb.

Burma held elections last year for the first time in two decades, replacing military rule with a military-backed civilian administration.

It came to power after widely criticised elections in November 2010 that replaced military rule with an army-backed, nominally civilian government.

The sudden eruption of violence on the streets, rare on this island since democracy replaced one-party rule in the 1980's, worried investors.

Civilian government replaced military rule in 1987.

Critics of neocolonialism claimed that the Françafrique had replaced formal direct rule.

The proposed Assembly would replace direct rule from Britain, in effect since 1974.

Disillusionment with democracy is growing in Latin America because the new democracies that replaced military rule in the 1990's failed to deliver promised growth.