1.   There is strong lobbying pressure for the governments that control portions of the polar ice caps not to build settlements there.

2.   Part of the reason is that the various tribal leaders are jockeying for position to control portions of the Afghan countryside once the Taliban is driven off.

3.   Real property, Dadakis said, should be held as tenants in common, meaning each person controls a portion.

4.   Renewed conflict is also threatened in Croatia, where rebel Serbs control a portion of the country.

5.   Separate investigations have been opened against some of the Suharto children, who continue to control large portions of the Indonesian economy.

6.   Syria controls the portions of Lebanon that are home to Hezbollah, the fundamentalist group that stages attacks on Israel.

7.   The children can split it into three chunks, however, so that each controls a portion of the account, Goldberg said.

8.   The government may streamline the zaito loan program amid criticism that zaito-financed lenders and companies control large portions of banking, construction and other industries.

9.   The result of this structure is that the law firm ultimately controls a portion of Mahonia.

10.   When just one or two insurers controlled a large portion of a regional market, physicians had little choice but to accept whatever was offered.