1.   Local people are protesting about the proposed conversion of a church into a late-night bar.

2.   The incident was certain to further antagonize Conservative and Reform Jews in the United States, who are already seething over the proposed conversion law.

3.   The fear among Reform and Conservative Jews is that the proposed conversion legislation will make them effectively not Jewish in the eyes of Israel.

4.   The hearing is the first time in department history that regulators have collected public testimony regarding a proposed for-profit conversion of a health maintenance organization.

5.   The proposed conversion guidelines prescribe no specific timeline or set of hurdles.

6.   Constitution for Israel plans a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for dumping the proposed conversion law.

7.   Funding for the proposed conversion will come from a combination of internally generated funds and bank borrowings, Ibrahim said.

8.   His office said he would reschedule the trip for the spring and would stay in Israel during critical debates on the budget and a proposed conversion law.

9.   Yue said residents had agreed to the proposed conversion of the roundabout near the mosque into a traffic-light junction.

10.   On Rue Blondel, where men in suits loiter outside sleazy bars that line the street, none of the prostitutes complains about the proposed conversion rate.