11.   Asked Sunday whether the United States was worried that military conflict in South Asia might destabilize Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, Rumsfeld said yes.

12.   A military conflict could disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East, which accounts for a third of world production.

13.   A military conflict between Syria and Turkey is still considered remote, Egyptian officials said Sunday night.

14.   A senior Western diplomat here put the odds of a military conflict at even or better.

15.   Alarmed at the possibility of military conflict, the Russian government led a diplomatic effort that confronted Saddam with a united demand for compliance with the inspection rules.

16.   But DeFrantz, a former Olympic rower, also acknowledged that military conflicts have occurred during past Olympic Games.

17.   But he deployed a succession of other tactics to replace the galvanizing frenzy of military conflict.

18.   But some contend that the Department of Defense is not doing enough to care for American troops and to collect medical data from military conflicts.

19.   But the need for soldiers instead of relief workers usually means the humanitarian crisis cannot be solved without subduing military conflict first.

20.   But when its president, Silas Buck Foot, saw the World Trade Center collapse in September, he said, he sensed that a military conflict would follow.