11.   Opponents said there were already legal mechanisms available to solve the problems the bills address and that approving them would promote same-sex marriage.

12.   Russia has no legal mechanisms to stop capital flight or to monitor money-laundering.

13.   Striking workers are ordered back to work, as happened with lifeguards last year, under a legal mechanism designed for quick governmental response during actual war.

14.   The laws also dilute opposition to open trade by channeling plaintiffs into a legal mechanism stacked in their favor.

15.   There is no legal mechanism allowing the federal government to save or invest its extra money.

16.   Poland has no legal mechanism for setting claims of private property taken over by the communist state.

17.   Attorneys for several foreign governments have filed an assortment of lawsuits in U.S. federal and state courts in an attempt to find some legal mechanism that withstands judicial scrutiny.

18.   Hemaraj Land and Development Plc president David Nardone said the government should implement a legal mechanism to allow foreign investors to hold a majority stake in the project.

19.   Hours before the bombing Saturday, Prime Minister Jose Mara Aznar said the government was devising new legal mechanisms to fight ETA.

20.   Hours before the bombing Saturday, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said the government was devising new legal mechanisms to fight ETA.