11.   Each company withdrew its application after an independent FCC-appointed panel recommended that the agency not award such a license to any of the three.

12.   FCC officials say they are not entirely to blame for the delays, noting that many phone companies had voluntarily withdrawn applications, citing technological uncertainties.

13.   Eventually, after extensive negotiations, the company withdrew its request for the records.

14.   He denied reports that the company would withdraw from its overseas operations.

15.   He hopes that global Sullivan principles will address this issue, and recommend that companies withdraw from countries that fail to comply with human rights standards.

16.   He said that he and Prudential lawyers had agreed privately that if enough people chose to go it alone, the insurance company could withdraw from the settlement.

17.   However, the company withdrew the registration after its officials asked Berkshire about the idea and got a negative response.

18.   However, the company withdrew from the Chicago market last year when new competitors entered.

19.   House and Senate negotiators accepted a proposal in the House bill that would allow some companies to withdraw surplus money from their pension funds to help pay other costs.

20.   If the company had withdrawn its applications from some areas, it would have lost hundreds of millions of rupees in initial deposits that it put up.