21.   IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said Wednesday that the organization will not rush into reforms just to appease its critics.

22.   Many say the result, as Beijing strains to appease internal critics and avoid annoying President Bush before his visit in October, could be more apparently contradictory behavior.

23.   Netanyahu appointed Sharon to the new job in an apparent effort to appease nationalist critics in his coalition who have warned against making concessions to the Palestinians.

24.   Premier Vincent Siew has tried to appease the critics, saying the measures were taken to keep economic and financial stability, not to bail out the property companies.

25.   The plan, meant to appease his critics, only infuriated protesters who wanted him to quit immediately.

26.   The prime minister later claimed his remarks had been misunderstood and taken out of context, but the explanation failed to appease critics worldwide.

27.   Turkey, in negotiations with the United States, is seeking more control over the force to appease critics of the mandate.

28.   That left British Prime Minister John Major under severe pressure to win further concessions to appease domestic critics who accused him Thursday of having surrendered to Brussels.