1.   A military policy of arming local militias to try to influence or derail the vote through intimidation may have taken on a life of its own.

2.   But details can derail votes in the Senate.

3.   By Monday, a seven-month campaign by pro-Indonesia forces to derail the vote had crossed all previous boundaries.

4.   He denied that the money had been used to arm and support government-backed militias that ravaged the territory after failing to derail the vote through intimidation.

5.   If this was a real attempt to derail the vote, one diplomat said, it seemed a rather halfhearted one.

6.   Senate foes of censure, led by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, have threatened to use parliamentary tactics to derail any vote on censure.

7.   U.N. officials said they were still trying to bring under control a campaign of violence and intimidation by organized anti-independence thugs who are seeking to derail the vote.

8.   During a debate in December, the European Union used a parliamentary maneuver to derail a vote.

9.   During the December debate, members of the European Union used a parliamentary maneuver to derail a vote by proposing that Secretary-General Kofi Annan study the idea.

10.   During a debate in December, members of the European Union used a parliamentary maneuver to derail a vote.