1.   The civil remedies available to owners of intellectual property rights have been supplemented by criminal sanctions, showing the seriousness with which Parliament views these matters.

2.   But Assad has shown greater seriousness about reaching an agreement with Peres, who came to power last month after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

3.   Last week, in a last-ditch effort to show some seriousness in the drug fight, the Colombian Congress stiffened the penalties for drug traffickers.

4.   The mass murders in New York and Washington, show the seriousness of that possibility.

5.   To show their seriousness, the candidates have been to California over and over again.

6.   Rebels have released some foreigners recently without payment in what they have called acts of good will showing their seriousness about peace overtures.

7.   To show his seriousness about the offer, he has placed advertisements in several newspapers calling on interested farmers to contact him.