11.   He suggested that the fund directors may be trying to extract financial concessions from Govett so the deal can go through smoothly.

12.   He said Giuliani needed to show he could extract concessions from the other unions too, a caution echoed by fiscal monitors.

13.   However, several sources said the move was a strategy to extract wage concessions from the Teamsters Union.

14.   If German companies successfully extract concessions in their home country, it will almost certainly lower the bar for wages and benefits elsewhere.

15.   If someone requests a zoning change, say from low-density to high-density homes, the city has every right to extract certain concessions.

16.   In exchange for dropping the salary cap or payroll tax the players steadfastly refused to accept, the owners extracted several concessions from the union.

17.   In other situations during the war in which the Serbs have climbed down, they have always claimed to have extracted important concessions.

18.   Indeed, French-speaking Quebec has made independence somewhat of a sport, to be taken seriously only when extracting concessions from the federal government in Ottawa.

19.   It hired investment banker Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette Securities Corp. to try to extract concessions from bondholders.

20.   It appeared on Monday, however, that Redstone had agreed to let Biondi leave without having extracted the concessions.