1.   To translate this new legal status into political action would have required an organised support basis and this did not exist.

2.   Seven opposition members of the Assembly abstained from the vote, claiming that the new status strengthened the powers of the executive at the expense of the judiciary.

3.   In Vienna the new status of the Romanov dynasty was particularly resented.

4.   Now both men are being teased by friends and colleagues about their new status as heros but PC Bains insists the credit lies with David Price.

5.   The new status system for racing under SARA rules has claimed its first victim.

6.   And both teams can thank their new status because of this draft.

7.   And some players see nothing wrong with embracing this new status as an eminently respectable second-tier American orchestra and leaving it at that.

8.   And the new status means Mexican bonds are now represented in benchmarks like the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond index.

9.   And, at least in its own eyes, the Hmong community in the United States had achieved a new status.

10.   Anyone who thinks the Philippines is suffering from its new frontline status in the war against terrorism has not met Jojo Gonzales or Joseph Madrid.