1.   Even before the Oklahoma City bombing raised the profile of groups hostile to the government, federal officials were facing rising anger and defiance across the West.

2.   Hostile groups that cannot develop their own weapons, meanwhile, may be able to buy them through illicit channels.

3.   In addition, he said, he had been the target of seven or eight assassination attempts, which he saw as the work of hostile Muslim groups.

4.   On Wednesday, the president of the International Skating Union met an extremely hostile group of reporters, some who think that figure skating has suddenly lost all credibility.

5.   Officials said there would be no attempt to send refugees back to areas now governed by hostile ethnic groups.

6.   Pakistan is concerned about the ascendancy of the Northern Alliance, a coalition of tribal and ethnic groups hostile to Pakistan in the past.

7.   Several hundred members of Catholic and Protestant groups frequently hostile to each other in the past demonstrated together for peace Sunday in Belfast.

8.   Some of the problems are purely tactical, like training troops in the proper techniques for disarming potentially hostile groups in volatile environments.

9.   The Republican advertising casts the AFL-CIO as a special interest group hostile to popular causes like balancing the budget and overhauling welfare to require recipients to work.

10.   Pakistan is also concerned about the emergence of a government in Kabul which contains groups hostile to Islamabad.