11.   His speech was never interrupted by applause, though there was sustained applause for his Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, when he was introduced before the speech.

12.   His half-hour speech was frequently interrupted by applause.

13.   Many more times in his surprisingly brief, slow-starting acceptance speech, Lasorda would be interrupted by applause.

14.   Nonetheless, the speech was not interrupted by applause.

15.   Not one rhetorical flourish was interrupted by applause, and even the ending was met with only polite clapping.

16.   Wilson was interrupted by applause, but one delegate who was not applauding was Regis Lane, an African American from Sacramento.

17.   A confident Cardinal Bernard Law was interrupted by applause Sunday when he vowed he would not step down despite increasing pressure from a child sex abuse scandal.

18.   At the dinner held in the U.N. Delegates Dining Room, Annan was interrupted by applause when he pledged to work to change the situation.

19.   He was interrupted by applause a half-dozen times.

20.   He was the only competitor to have a performance interrupted by applause.