31.   Williams purchased Italian fire protection company Silvani last September, broadening its European base and providing a platform for future acquisitions.

32.   Portable computers provide excellent platforms for delivering presentations to internal or external audiences, with newer models featuring rich multimedia capabilities.

33.   A business conference designed to showcase Egypt as the next emerging market has instead provided a platform for critics airing grievances about red tape and high tariffs.

34.   According to APWM president Maskina Rahim, the association hopes to provide a platform from which Pakistani women in Malaysia may interact with each other and the Malaysian community.

35.   According to scientists, sea ice is also important to polar bears because it provide the platform from which they hunt seals as food.

36.   According to scientists, sea ice is also important to polar bears because it provides the platform from which they hunt seals as food.

37.   Algerian officials have asked EU nations to stop providing propaganda platforms for exiled sympathizers of Islamic militants.

38.   Amnesty International provided a platform for the husband of an American University researcher detained in China.

39.   Among other things, it brings the costs of such services home to the household and provides a platform for evaluating the quality of provision.

40.   As for traditional telecommunications operators, he said one of the major growing markets is to provide platforms around the Internet, helping companies develop their own intranet systems.