1.   But both sides agree that one proposed rule change could hasten the pace of applications.

2.   But experts were unsure whether such enthusiasm would induce the Chinese government to hasten the pace of change.

3.   From Congress to statehouses around the country, lawmakers are pushing bills to limit death-penalty appeals and hasten the pace of executions.

4.   Nafta will hasten the pace that it becomes one, but that moment is a ways off.

5.   The Bruins, who expect to play zone most of the day, will try to take advantage of their overall quickness and hasten the pace.

6.   He also said he wished he had hastened the pace of democratic reform in Hong Kong instead of engaging in futile negotiations with China on the issue.

7.   ASEAN economic ministers opened their annual meeting on regional cooperation here Thursday to a renewed push by the Sultan of Brunei to hasten the pace of trade liberalisation.

8.   Peres said from Oman on Monday that Syria should hasten the pace of talks in the hope that peace could be signed this year.