1.   If he does, someone should be facing the axe at the end of this season.

2.   All the Linden trees could face the axe on Unter den Linden boulevard.

3.   At least three more ministers are expected to face the axe.

4.   Captain Steve Waugh, who has already lost the one-day team captaincy, faced the axe from the Test team after a disappointing series in South Africa.

5.   Tikhonov had faced the axe since Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin signed a resolution earlier this month on a new management team for the airline.

6.   Zen-Ruffinen later acknowledged however that he faced the axe.

7.   Left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju or seamer Venkatesh Prasad will face the axe if Kapoor is accomodated.