1.   The proposal adopted today also exempts those branches from the rule preventing deposit gathering.

2.   Activists attacked police and paramilitary forces as they tried to prevent the gathering.

3.   He had been scheduled for release in May, but local Baptists speculate he was released early to prevent gatherings when he was to be freed, Keston reported.

4.   Military blocks roads to prevent opposition gathering.

5.   Roadblocks erected by authorities have prevented such gatherings for two months.

6.   The government has said police would use force to prevent the gatherings.

7.   The Russian military, which claims that Chechen rebels often pose as civilians to move around the republic and regroup, apparently wants to prevent gatherings on election day.

8.   There was no sign the regime planned to prevent the gathering, but roadblocks could be erected in minutes.

9.   But police intervened and sealed off access to the house to prevent any gatherings of more than two people, the daily said.

10.   Clashes between extremists and police also left one officer seriously hurt at Muenden near Kassel in central Germany, and police intervened to prevent gatherings in several other towns.