11.   Planning officials insisted on an environmental assessment being carried out when the scheme was first mooted more than two years ago.

12.   Officials insisted relations with Washington were now excellent.

13.   Alliance officials insist, however, that the issue is sovereignty and that Afghans are not eager to see the deployment of foreign troops on their soil.

14.   Although Perry suggested Thursday that the second beacon might have been broken on the day of the crash, Croatian aviation officials have insisted that both beacons were operating.

15.   Although project officials insist Gramm violated the law, the committee did not investigate the charges, largely because Gramm already had stopped the practice.

16.   Also, American officials insisted that the satellite make at least two imaging scans of Antarctica.

17.   Although uranium has been mined in the area for years, city officials insist that radioactivity registers no higher here than in Toronto or New York.

18.   American officials have insisted that Secretary of State Colin Powell would not approve the resumption of aid until war crimes suspects were actually extradited.

19.   American officials have so far insisted that any dialogue take place between government officials.

20.   American officials insisted that there had been no intention to mislead him.