1.   In the earlier rounds, Ferguson and Dickinson were the standouts.

2.   In an earlier round of voting the NPP leader, Davaadorjiyn Ganbold, had been eliminated.

3.   Earlier rounds of negotiations had agreed that the aim of a new treaty should be to reduce acid rain by half of current levels.

4.   Three times winners Telford, meanwhile, have struggled to finally overcome two Northern League sides in Northallerton and Guisborough in earlier rounds.

5.   An earlier round of talks between White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta collapsed after a dispute over the political pecking order.

6.   An earlier round, before the suit was filed, did not reach a resolution.

7.   And the vendor involved later got another company contract, although he had been found to have colluded with a corrupt executive in an earlier round of bidding.

8.   Another proposal during earlier rounds of settlement talks was requiring the Microsoft board to create an independent oversight board that would report to the Justice Department.

9.   But the company has shown some willingness to discuss them in earlier rounds of settlement discussions, according to people close to those talks.

10.   But, after some harsh criticism in the earlier rounds, FIFA officials now insist that they are content with the officiating over all.