1.   UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd echoed the argument that there was an option for peace and that the Iraqis hold it in their hands.

2.   And those arguments were echoed in parliaments and editorial pages all across Europe.

3.   Alan Auerbach, director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California at Berkeley, echoed that argument.

4.   Bumpers echoed those arguments during his much-praised presentation two days ago.

5.   Echoing the argument of Senate Majority Leader Thomas C. Norton, a Democrat, Morrissey said there are too many loopholes and other problems with the compact.

6.   Echoing an argument made by defense secretaries through the decades, Rumsfeld asserted on Thursday that security was a national imperative and not just another discretionary spending program.

7.   His arguments were echoed by Deputy Mayor John S. Dyson of New York City.

8.   In explaining the veto, Clinton echoed the argument of Fitzsimmons and his colleagues.

9.   One American doctor involved in the research, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, echoed that argument.

10.   Opponents of the amendment, including a handful of Republicans, echoed that argument during four hours of intense debate.