After Britain had relinquished her status as protector and handed the country back to the people, it had swiftly transformed itself into a model for the rest of the continent.

Liberty can be swiftly transformed into its opposite.

A reconstruction based on dozens of interviews with passengers, investigators and others presents a picture of instantaneous horror, in which the ordinariness of just another airplane flight was swiftly transformed into the worst nightmare of all who fly.

The bombings have swiftly transformed the organization from one of the parties seeking peace in Northern Ireland to the peace spoiler.

World's Biggest Donor These and other developments, including the sharp rise of the yen against the dollar, have swiftly transformed Japan into the world's biggest provider of foreign aid, although officials in Tokyo say they feel that up to now their views have not had influence commensurate with the nation's economic power.

Hacker's joyful reaction is swiftly transformed to solemnity, and a state funeral must now be arranged.

After all, since this country joined the European Community in 1986, huge dollops of capital from abroad have swiftly transformed it from a forgotten economic backwater into a new land of opportunity.

This was Brian's army, guided by his will, shaped by his hand; at his order, the random Celtic fighting formation could be transformed swiftly into a flying wedge, a hollow square-any configuration and fighting style that the situation might require.

In the three years that followed, he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment, and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know.

But after June 5, when forces believed to be loyal to General Mohammed Farah Aidid killed 24 Pakistani peacekeepers, Somalia was swiftly transformed from a model for future peacekeeping operations to an object lesson in what can go wrong.