51.   The Republican leaders thought they could control these fringe groups, but now they have become a major force in their own right, with Buchanan as their champion.

52.   The posters, they said, were the work of a fringe group.

53.   The settlers at Maon, and their supporters, have been portrayed here as a fringe group.

54.   The two obvious exceptions are Indonesia and the Philippines where excessive foreign attention on fringe Muslim groups is distracting them from bigger problems.

55.   The voting system has been designed to prevent fringe groups with very little support from entering parliament.

56.   They also raise the specter of taxpayer dollars flowing to religious fringe groups or cults that might set up schools.

57.   Two men have been arrested, and one of them is suspected of links to a fringe Protestant paramilitary group.

58.   We should not abandon it now just because a few fringe groups try to drive the United States out.

59.   When no fringe group outside the party endorsed his candidacy either, Smith was welcomed back without retribution into the GOP by Senate colleagues, who needed his vote.

60.   While there is a long history of separatist unrest among Muslims in the southern Philippine islands, Abu Sayyaf is a fringe group with limited political support.