11.   His was a lonely voice.

12.   Joan B. Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, a consumer group founded by Ralph Nader, was a lonely voice criticizing the bill Sunday night.

13.   Millard has been an outstanding member of the council and a sometimes lonely voice for fiscal restraint and common sense.

14.   Still, a few lonely voices in both parties deplore the dumbing down of political dialogue.

15.   Yet he also is a lonely voice against slavery in Africa, an issue that gets scant mention.

16.   As a lonely voice among Jewish settlers, he argues a Palestinian state exists in fact, and should be recognized formally.

17.   The Conservatives, along with some business people worried about higher taxes and groups opposed to weakening the English tie at any price, form a lonely voice.