21.   The moves were clearly an effort by the authoritarian president to save face and regain the initiative in more than seven weeks of struggle against the pro-democracy movement.

22.   In the fifth game Eyles began to suffer with cramps and Nicol was able to regain the initiative he had held intermittently during the first two games.

23.   Arafat has been trying to regain the initiative after the clashes which raised the spectre of a Palestinian civil war.

24.   Birmingham currently hold top spot but Brentford, at home to the apparently doomed Cardiff, look set to regain the initiative on Saturday.

25.   But four days later, the Israel army regained the initiative and went on to reverse its early losses.

26.   Earlier Saturday, sources in Kisangani said that Zairean government forces backed by Rwandan soldiers and mercenaries were regaining the initiative in their battle against the rebels.

27.   Earlier, several sources in Kisangani said that Zairean government forces backed by Rwandan soldiers and mercenaries were regaining the initiative in their battle against the rebels.

28.   The Swede though regained the initiative in the third as Rios was unable to keep up his momentum.

29.   Whether Arafat, who has demonstrated his resilliency time and again, will hang on and regain the initiative is an open question.

30.   On Saturday, Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov told the Duma, the lower chamber of parliament in Moscow, that federal troops had regained the initiative.