1.   Iran, whose delegation worked with other Muslim countries and the Vatican to remove controversial clauses, said it now backed the document.

2.   Netanyahu has said the meeting will take place only if the Palestinian National Council votes to annul the controversial clauses of the charter on Monday.

3.   Probably the most controversial clause of the new law requires sports clubs, as the soccer teams are known, to register as private businesses.

4.   Several years ago, for example, it agreed to a controversial clause under which companies could rehire long-term unemployed people at reduced wages.

5.   A controversial clause revokes a ban on media owners entering state tenders.

6.   He ordered several changes, but allowed the most controversial clauses to remain largely intact.

7.   The Constitutional Court on Monday invalidated controversial clauses in a Socialist land law amendment which President Zhelyu Zhelev and the opposition charged encroached on private ownership rights.

8.   The new version included several changes but kept the most controversial clauses largely intact.

9.   The new version includes several changes but kept the most controversial clauses largely intact.

10.   He told journalists he was in favour of scrapping the controversial clauses from the charter.