1.   Critics accused Mr Berlusconi of surrendering the authority of the state to a few thousand extremists who could now claim victory.

2.   Crew, a former board official said, was also annoyed that Gresser surrendered authority to the clerk of the board, Gelbard.

3.   He called on European governments to surrender greater authority to Eurocontrol.

4.   In exchange, the Serbs would have to surrender direct authority to Croatia in areas they now hold but where they were not a majority before the war.

5.   Most Prosperos tend to be near the peak of their thunderous powers when surrendering authority.

6.   One is whether independent trustees would surrender their authority to the church.

7.   That authority is being surrendered to the European Central Bank.

8.   The Yugoslav Army has demanded that the Montenegrin police surrender authority to them, but the police have refused.

9.   They have surrendered their authority to tackle problems by printing more money, handing power over monetary policy to the politically independent European Central Bank.

10.   But others noted the court did not completely surrender its authority to Beijing.