11.   Before he can deal with civilian matters, the governor has to make sure the Taliban are truly through as a fighting force here.

12.   Blaskic is chief of staff of the Croatian Defense Council, a Bosnia-based fighting force known as the HVO.

13.   A famed U.S. fighting force is poised to assist in an emergency pullout of Western forces from Bosnia.

14.   A week ago, after defeating Detroit, they appeared at last to have come together as a stable, unified fighting force.

15.   But increasing the number of American forces to turn the Northern Alliance into a more credible fighting force has run into unexpected problems, Rumsfeld said.

16.   But mutual suspicion and differing strategic aims have undermined the federation since it was formed, and it seems unlikely that a cohesive fighting force will emerge this year.

17.   But Pentagon officials stress it is too early to tell if the Taliban will disintegrate as a fighting force.

18.   But Kennedy recognized the need for this special fighting force in the kind of unconventional war that had begun to rage in Vietnam.

19.   But while an interim government has been installed and the Taliban eliminated as an effective fighting force, the general offered no predictions for a homecoming of U.S. troops.

20.   By seizing power, the prince said, Hun Sen will transform the communist Khmer Rouge from a dying movement into a renewed fighting force.