41.   The actions have so far failed to stem the mounting political damage, and Chretien remains on the defensive, with leading newspapers this week calling for his resignation.

42.   The issue was first raised by two leading Jewish newspapers.

43.   The Guardian, a leading British newspaper, recently published an article he wrote calling attention to the persecution of Christians in some Islamic nations.

44.   The leading newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, recorded it in five paragraphs deep inside its Metro section.

45.   The leading newspaper, An Nahar, has reported incidents in which villagers have beaten up returning former militiamen who received what they saw as light sentences.

46.   The offended directors say that influential critics at leading newspapers give ample space and generous reviews to Hollywood blockbusters while treating many French films with gratuitous venom.

47.   The Project for Excellence in Journalism studied two weeks of pre-New Hampshire primary coverage in five leading newspapers and nine television programs.

48.   The political agendas of the leading Chinese newspapers, Schurmann said, are kept largely to the editorial pages.

49.   The Saudi Arabian ambassador to Great Britain, for example, recently published a poem extolling suicide bombers on the front page of a leading Arabic newspaper.

50.   The Times was selected because it is a leading metropolitan newspaper that is national in scope, the researchers said.