11.   A cut in interest rates would be welcomed by the federal government, which faces an election before May next year.

12.   A rupture of the talks would cause a serious dispute between the United States and Israel just a few weeks before Clinton faces midterm elections for Congress.

13.   Alabama trial judges face partisan election every six years.

14.   But it is uncertain whether the administration, preoccupied by the Lewinsky scandal and facing November elections, will determine to strike at the Serbs.

15.   But the Americans had made a fuss over French spying, and Balladur, facing elections, wanted to look tough on Washington.

16.   Congressional Democrats, facing elections next November, may move sooner than later.

17.   Clinton, facing an election, angered close US allies by signing the Helms-Burton bill.

18.   Despite the instability of their government, which might now face elections, many Serbs are still happy that their former leader is gone.

19.   Even though his ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Popular Front, has a hammerlock on Parliament, he faces an election next year.

20.   Few parliamentarians, facing election in December, dare to be perceived as cost-cutters in a nation tired of hardship.