11.   A centrist party on Monday withdrew from the ruling coalition to allow its leader to run for president in February, possibly against President Glafcos Clerides.

12.   A ruling coalition party withdrew a request for last-minute changes in a lucrative sale of state assets Wednesday, removing fears that the deal would fall through.

13.   After Mrs. Ciller secured a coalition deal with Welfare, the Islamic party withdrew its support from the probes against her.

14.   After losing elections in November, the party has withdrawn from the political mainstream.

15.   Allows either party to withdraw from the treaty on six months notice.

16.   Although two hard-line Protestant parties withdrew in protest, the representatives of the pro-British paramilitary groups remained.

17.   At the weekend conference the activists demanded the party withdraw its support for the military commitment, but lost the vote and had to settle for a policy review.

18.   Both parties withdrew from the talks last year following an IRA truce that got Sinn Fein into negotiations.

19.   But he declined to say whether his party would withdraw its support from Gujral, which almost certainly would topple the government.

20.   But those parties had already withdrawn from the vote hours before polls closed, declaring the ballot was unfair.