11.   He said the failure to make progress in this area would give ammunition to critics of ties between Washington and Beijing.

12.   His disdain for the traditional rules of poetry only gave ammunition to his critics.

13.   In charging that the House unfairly manipulated the evidence, Ruff gave ammunition to those senators who wish to call witnesses to resolve conflicts in testimony.

14.   In his address, Salmon sought to mute criticisms that he had given Democrats ammunition with which to attack Gingrich and his GOP agenda.

15.   Instead of giving Cohen ammunition against his critics, however, the report, delivered Tuesday, seemed to arm his opponents.

16.   It gives ammunition to Republican critics who say the Clinton administration and the leading aid agencies squandered billions in Russia while tolerating widespread corruption.

17.   It is situations like this that give critics ammunition for attacking the United Nations as wasteful and irrelevant, to the detriment of what it has accomplished.

18.   It is giving ammunition to the forces of the past, those who were always against new thinking and resented any reforms, any cooperation with the West.

19.   It also gives fresh ammunition to critics who think multiculturalism has gone overboard.

20.   Moreover he is afraid the class-action suits will give HMOs ammunition to claim they are already vulnerable.