11.   An aide to Paxon said yesterday that Paxon, DeLay and Armey with the disaffected Republicans to urge them to unite behind the speaker.

12.   And competing interests prevented them from uniting behind a single strategy.

13.   And he has the nation united behind his cause, which is likely to reduce inter-cabinet squabbling.

14.   And this is an aim that the government, disunited on everything else, will find it fairly easy to unite behind.

15.   And the fragmented opposition had united behind the labor leader Vladimir Goncharik.

16.   Armey said the Republican leadership, which is united behind the PNTR legislation, will do what it can to hold rank-and-file Republicans together.

17.   As Philander D. Chase, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington, watches Americans unite behind President Bush, his thoughts turn to the first president.

18.   Asked whether the delegation was united behind Rowland, Mayor Joseph P. Ganim hedged in his response, leading Rowland to take the microphone.

19.   Bosnian Serb politicians stubbornly defied peace efforts and united behind their nationalist leader, Radovan Karadzic.

20.   Boutros-Ghali, however, is thought to be sympathetic to the European position, even though the EU itself has failed to unite behind a single candidate.