1.   The decision was reached after consultation with parents and teachers.

2.   The compromise was reached after industrial leaders and some politicians had expressed fears that a precipitate phase-out of nuclear power would lead to large increases in energy costs.

3.   Dacosta said that the power-sharing agreement was reached after mediation by President Omar Bongo of Gabon.

4.   A compromise was reached recently after much wrangling between those for and against duties on dollar bananas.

5.   Although the agreement Wednesday was expected, it was reached only after some detailed negotiations, particularly on the issue of taxes.

6.   But even as negotiators hailed the agreement, reached after nearly a year of bruising talks, officials braced for new and potentially nasty fights over distributing the money.

7.   But supporters of night basketball were heartened by the House action Sunday, reached after marathon sessions with lawmakers from both parties and both chambers of Congress.

8.   He and his predecessors made visits to Central Asia that paved the way for an extraordinary agreement reached after the terrorist attacks in the United States.

9.   In each case the government would rely upon the conservative calculations of the Congressional Budget Office, reached after consultations with the White House Office of Management and Budget.

10.   It is a place reached after winding down rocky dirt roads, where cows may as easily wander through the remnants of mass graves as through adjacent grasslands.