11.   There were the usual fears that American involvement might soon reduce the British to the status of a junior partner.

12.   Such changes enabled junior partners to be taken on without initial capital contributions and to buy their way in effectively through restrictions on their drawings.

13.   The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.

14.   And then there are the junior partners such as Kirk King and Travis Knight.

15.   As leaders like South African President Thabo Mbeki promote their vision of an African renaissance, they are increasingly impatient playing the junior partner in North-South relations.

16.   But as junior partners in the case, the states may urge the Justice Department to hang tough.

17.   But Antje Radcke, a leader of the Green Party, which is the junior partner in the coalition government, said such proposals were far too cumbersome.

18.   But BellSouth insisted that it not be a junior partner to SBC, executives close to the talks said, and in the end SBC agreed to share control.

19.   But to do so, the leader of the alliance had to take a back seat to its junior partners, Britain and France.

20.   By next Tuesday, the two men plan to bury the arms race and make Russia a junior partner with NATO.