11.   Witnesses told investigators they were promised more security but that former Governor Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro failed to heed pleas for help.

12.   Zedillo did not say what he would do if the Zapatistas did not heed his plea, which sounded very much like an ultimatum.

13.   Perhaps, in this hard times, we should heed the plea from Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

14.   Police ordered the cancellation of the rally without heeding opposition pleas to investigate the attack, said opposition spokesman Learnmore Jongwe.

15.   But Bush found additional support when a spate of counties heeded his plea to reconsider overseas military absentee ballots originally rejected for faulty postmarks.

16.   Bush found additional support when a spate of counties heeded his plea to reconsider overseas military absentee ballots originally rejected for faulty postmarks.

17.   Heeding radio pleas by pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru, protesters had finally dismantled the last of their barricades by Thursday night.

18.   His plea was not heeded by everyone.

19.   Heeding radio pleas by pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru, protesters finally dismantled the last of their barricades on Thursday night.

20.   However, several students heeded the pleas of university officials to not provoke a police response and left the protest at nightfall.