1.   The three components of the coalition were the PNV with nine Cabinet seats, the Basque Socialist party with five seats, and the Basque Left with one seat.

2.   An overall federal reorganization that regroups department functions in different ways, in the process eliminating some Cabinet seats, might be useful.

3.   Blair hopes to persuade Protestant politicians to drop their objection to letting Sinn Fein take its Cabinet seats before the IRA begins disarming.

4.   But merely abolishing a Cabinet seat while moving its programs into other agencies saves little money and simply shuffles boxes on organizational charts.

5.   Education in general is not a priority for a Congress that keeps threatening to eliminate the Cabinet seat dedicated to furthering public learning.

6.   Even before taking your oath of office, you were parceling out Cabinet seats on the basis of color and gender.

7.   Rather than expand federal efforts to improve education, the GOP wants to downgrade the subject by denying education its present Cabinet seat.

8.   Royals traditionally occupy half the cabinet seats in most Gulf countries.

9.   The Communists and other opposition parties want a prominent place in the new government, including cabinet seats and a role in shaping domestic policy.

10.   The heads of the coalition parties will demand Cabinet seats in return for their support.