11.   China has applied to join the Geneva-based WTO, the Geneva-based trading organization.

12.   Countries including the Czech Republic have applied to join the European Union.

13.   Eventually Britain did apply to join the Common Market, and after twice being rejected became a member.

14.   He was describing those nations, including China, that have applied to join the organization.

15.   His whole medical school class applied to join the Navy, mainly because the Dearborn Naval Station was nearby.

16.   It is not a member of the World Bank or similar international lending organizations, although it is now thinking of applying to join the Asian Development Bank.

17.   Nine nations, including the former Soviet republics in the Baltics, are applying to join the alliance.

18.   Officers close to Delta Force say that several hundred members of other elite military squads apply to join each year.

19.   The push to move to I-A by campus sports administrators also picked up a nudge earlier this month when Connecticut applied to join the Big East Conference.

20.   Then, after serving in the gulf, Chapman applied to join the special forces.