1.   Among them was an earlier agreement to pay a young man alleged to have been sexually abused by the Rev. John R. Tulipana.

2.   After she had received three steroid treatments, her HMO reneged on an earlier agreement to pay for them.

3.   But because the contract lasts for four years, or twice as long as earlier agreements, city officials say they are satisfied that labor stability has been guaranteed.

4.   But Palestinian officials accused the Israelis of backtracking on an earlier agreement that the envoy, a European Union official named Alistair Crooke, would enter the church.

5.   But unlike the earlier agreement, human figures such as the Marlboro Man would be allowed, and advertising would be permitted outside stores.

6.   Correll declined to comment on who insisted on changes to an earlier agreement.

7.   Earlier agreements have been cynically broken.

8.   Earlier international agreements dealt with certain protections for victims of war, but not with how governments treated their own citizens.

9.   Earlier agreements to set prices directly had failed, as production levels continued to exceed customer demand, forcing prices down.

10.   Earlier agreements were more explicit, but regulators were more cautious in later transactions, he said.