1.   There is a distinction here between personal religious experience and formal membership of a religious tradition.

2.   Buddhists, without a church hierarchy, a formal membership system or congregational organizations, depend heavily on donations and fees.

3.   Still, Vural said signs are promising that Turkey will be ready to open formal membership negotiations within four years and that ultimately it will join the EU.

4.   The Russian Ambassador to France on Monday delivered a formal membership request to the OECD from Viktor Chernomyrdin, the president of the government of the Russian Federation.

5.   Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, Slovenia, Estonia and the Czech Republics are in formal membership negotiations with the EU.

6.   A glance at problems facing six countries who are opening formal membership talks with the EU.

7.   Because the sect has no formal membership, it is hard to gauge the number of practitioners worldwide.

8.   Britain, Denmark and Austria support a review that could see Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta open formal membership talks next year.

9.   Britain argues formal membership of the grid need not be a condition for joining the single currency zone.

10.   But Polish officials say they want formal membership before the summit so they can take part as full members in debates on NATO policy.