1.   But senators opposed to the bases vowed to block its passage, calling it illegal.

2.   Federal court has called illegal a practice in the mortgage industry that costs consumers millions of dollars in extra payments.

3.   Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Russia, a major oil exporter, would ignore the embargo, which he called illegal unless approved by the United Nations Security Council.

4.   While many call this just bad luck, the law calls it illegal.

5.   Prostitutes in this East African nation have formed an association to stave off police harassment, but on Tuesday the police called it illegal.

6.   Abdel Kader said he would protest the closing, which he called illegal.

7.   Aushev, a retired major general who is now president of Ingushetia, appealed to the Russian parliament for an investigation of the raid, which he called illegal.

8.   Slot machines, which the state called illegal, were replaced with pull-tab games played elsewhere in the state.

9.   The federal prime minister, who is a Montenegrin, and other ministers from the republic resigned in protest of the Serbian government move, calling it illegal.

10.   The document, expected to gain final approval next week, urges the government to seek the reversal of privatization auctions, which lawmakers called illegal.