21.   A catheter will alleviate this suffering.

22.   A Japanese Embassy statement quoted Japanese Ambassador Takayuki Kimura as saying that the fund will bolster social programs and help alleviate the suffering of needy families and farmers.

23.   But nongovernment organizations and opposition leaders have accused the state government of not doing enough to alleviate the suffering of those hit hardest by the earthquake and drought.

24.   But the United Nations agreed to allow limited oil exports under strict international supervision to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.

25.   But problems persist, even though private groups also try to alleviate the suffering of the dogs.

26.   But U.N. agencies say the amount of food and medicine is too low to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.

27.   For many others, the carnival is simply a touch of fantasy to alleviate daily suffering.

28.   Iraq has complained that the program is insufficient to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people after seven years of U.N. sanctions.

29.   Iraqi opposition groups abroad claim the government has mishandled funds that could help alleviate the suffering resulting from the embargo.

30.   It said Croat authorities were working to alleviate the suffering of hundreds of thousands of minority Serbs in areas seized by the Croat army last summer.