1.   It was a hard act to follow, but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead.

2.   He said the phone company works as hard as it can to provide uninterrupted service but is often challenged by the limitations of radio-based communication.

3.   His mother did the best she could to provide a normal childhood, Schroder recalls.

4.   In addition, many GOP lawmakers believe the private insurance market can providing coverage more efficiently than the federal government.

5.   She did everything she could to provide for us.

6.   So could providing a short course of AZT, which prevents the AIDS virus from multiplying rapidly in cells, to a woman in her final stages of pregnancy.

7.   That contest between paying more and providing less can end up a political tussle.

8.   Qian said China has been doing the best it can to provide for its billion-plus citizens.

9.   But the government has done what it can to provide them with some pleasant reminders of home.

10.   President Vaclav Havel said Monday the Czech Republic should do as much as it can to provide shelter to refugees from the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.