1.   As I get it, factions in Turkey are quietly helping fellow Muslims in both Chechnya and Bosnia assert their sovereignty.

2.   As privatization spreads in Canada, some people wonder whether scientists and tourists could supplement soldiers in asserting modern sovereignty.

3.   It started in late September when Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon toured a Jerusalem holy site sacred to both Jews and Muslims and asserted Israeli sovereignty there.

4.   The Iraqi leader can now look for a sympathetic ear from accompanying diplomats from France and Russia when Iraqi authorities assert sovereignty to deny entry to inquisitive weapons inspectors.

5.   The leader of the Likud opposition did not tell me he planned a visit to the Temple Mount to assert that sovereignty.

6.   The measures also would sanction Washington state tribes that assert sovereignty over reservation land owned by non-Indians.

7.   Beijing was enraged by the visit, seeing it as a move to assert separate sovereignty for Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway Chinese province.

8.   Beijing was enraged, seeing the visit as a move to assert separate sovereignty for Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province.

9.   China will be swift in asserting its sovereignty.

10.   Chechnya views itself as an independent state and has been trying to assert its sovereignty.