11.   Nor are neighboring countries.

12.   Spain offers a potential base for expansion into neighboring European Union countries, but that market is not growing very rapidly itself.

13.   The governments of Bosnia and Croatia, neighboring countries formed in the disintegration of Yugoslavia, have been driven to cooperation by a mutual threat from Serbian nationalists.

14.   This narrow storefront has become popular with many people from Peru and Ecuador, neighboring countries that share cultural traditions.

15.   As well as representatives of the Afghan conflict, the meeting will involve the five permanent members of the U.N. security council as well as neighboring countries.

16.   Authorities say attacks have stepped up when the rebels mixed in with Hutus returning from neighboring countries late last year.

17.   Banks that long have had a cushy business in their home markets will face competition from rivals in neighboring countries.

18.   Barnard said the SCC authorized and carried out operations neighboring countries, and had hit legitimate targets that were a military threat to South Africa.

19.   Because Taiwan bans the manufacture and sale of firearms, gangsters have been smuggling them from neighboring countries.

20.   British officials also dismissed rumors that British troops had been deployed in neighboring countries to mount an evacuation.