11.   But Ikeda, the opposition legislator, said it was more likely that the Liberal Democrats would go back to the agreement.

12.   Despite the drubbing, opposition legislators refused to ally themselves with Meciar, even though he offered them some top government jobs.

13.   Fauzi Hamdan, an opposition party legislator who presides over a congressional committee overseeing Mexicos bank bailout, said the bailout agency was acting within its legal rights.

14.   Finance Ministry officials said they plan to begin consultations with opposition legislators after meetings with PRI lawmakers, which began today.

15.   For the first time in modern Mexican history, opposition legislators have found themselves invited to breakfast and lunch with the president.

16.   Fox also accused opposition legislators of attempting to consistently block progress by his administration.

17.   Her comment sparked an immediate uproar in Israel, with opposition legislators demanding a retaliatory halt to planned West Bank troop withdrawals.

18.   Human rights and Peruvian opposition legislators who gathered here Monday called for new elections, and, failing that, concerted pressure on Fujimori.

19.   In a session plagued with procedural blunders by unseasoned opposition legislators and bare-fisted sparring among deputies, the opposition rejected a bill it had intended to pass.

20.   In general, opposition legislators are not accusing Ortiz of corruption.