11.   A senior administration official made clear that the Israelis had some latitude in when to call off the military offensive.

12.   A wave of bombings and shootings against Israelis prompted a intense Israeli military offensive in the West Bank in April.

13.   Administration officials said that telegraphing NATO military strategy in Kosovo is designed to coerce the Serbs into halting their military offensive in Kosovo and accepting a peace settlement.

14.   Albright assured audiences that the United States has a well-planned military offensive ready for Iraq.

15.   Bush called on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to end immediately its military offensive and its civilian settlements into Palestinian territories.

16.   But a splinter group called Abu Sayyaf has committed a series of large-scale kidnappings, including those of dozens of foreigners, and continues to evade military offensives.

17.   But it brought no reprieve to the Russian president, who remains under attack at home and abroad for his military offensive against the secessionist southern region.

18.   But the guerrillas used their new dominion to store arms, plan military offensives and grow coca.

19.   But though there were various conflicts between surrogates, the United States was not simultaneously waging a military offensive born out of a devastating attack on its own shores.

20.   But what does the Iraqi dictator really hope to gain from his military offensive against the minority Kurds in the safe haven of northern Iraq?