Now, a strikingly similar wave of revolutions appears to signal its death.

A similar wave of speculation was beaten back in the fall of 1997, following the Asian financial crisis.

The redevelopers of the Plaza Hotel are preparing for a similar wave.

The exchange is racing to update its computers, but many analysts fear similar waves of panicked selling in the future.

Mr. Arafat moved against these groups before, in 1996, after a similar wave of terrorism.

A similar wave of intended restructuring swept Japan in 1993 and 1994, but few plans ever became reality once the economy picked up in 1995.

A different train approach melody was used on the station, playing a sound similar to that of an ocean wave.

At least 108 people were killed and 371 injured in the first major insurgent action since a similar wave of violence almost a month earlier.

Others had been washed off their perch by similar waves, sucked under the bilge, and drowned.

But a similar wave of nationalist fervour is sweeping other European countries too.