1.   A minority administration should face little difficulty winning Liberal Democrat support for similar objectives.

2.   But the administration faces two high hurdles in efforts to get the treaty ratified.

3.   The administration is facing a familiar conundrum.

4.   His administration now faces accusations of corruption.

5.   And a terse order issued earlier on Thursday by three of the nine appeals judges once again signaled that the administration faced long odds.

6.   Another official said that, had it participated directly in the talks, the administration would have faced two risks.

7.   Besides the policy challenges, the Siegelman administration faces accusations of cronyism and other misdeeds in the awarding of state contracts.

8.   A continued U.S. presence in Bosnia would require approval by Congress, where the administration likely would face an uphill and bipartisan battle.

9.   But she did express frustration at the difficulty the administration faced in coming up with new supplies of energy.

10.   But the administration is still facing a clamor of divergent interest groups over how to proceed.