1.   The way to avoid this was to vote Tory and secure a majority government maintaining the existing system.

2.   Chretien hopes to win enough seats for his Liberal Party to form a third consecutive majority government, a feat not seen here since World War II.

3.   Having lost his majority government when rightist parties defected before the meeting, Barak faces an uncertain future as a leader.

4.   Having lost his majority government when rightist parties defected before the summit, Barak faces an uncertain future as a leader.

5.   IAL was headed at the time by Karlheinz Schreider, an Alberta financier who was prominent in Conservative Party circles when the Tories held a majority government in Ottawa.

6.   One of the center-left parties would have to join with the center-right parties to form a majority government without Refah.

7.   Prime Minister Jean Chretien met his Liberal members of parliament today for the first time since Canadians re-elected them last week to form a second straight majority government.

8.   The vote completes the transition from white apartheid rule to majority government.

9.   Other Social Democrat leaders wasted no time in voicing their skepticism about the difficulties in forming a majority government.

10.   President Guntis Ulmanis had strongly pushed for forming a majority government, but an agreement could not be reached.