11.   In the end, the Orthodox Jewish leaders in the county threw their support behind the Republican candidate, Thomas P. Morahan.

12.   In other U.S. cities, relations between Orthodox leaders and their Reform and Conservative counterparts have been chilly, but not in San Antonio.

13.   It is voices like his that many middle-of-the-road Orthodox leaders say they feel compelled to condemn.

14.   It was a sea-level change that enraged Orthodox leaders in Israel.

15.   It was the latest in a series of Supreme Court rulings on matters of religion and state that have been criticized by Orthodox leaders as anti-religious.

16.   Orthodox Jewish leaders are being demonized as right-wing extremists and fanatics and are busy giving apologies.

17.   Orthodox leaders said their meeting came after decades of cooperative efforts among the bishops on such matters as missionary work and theological training.

18.   Orthodox leaders did not raise the pedophilia scandals with the pope, but they, too, had read the newspapers.

19.   Orthodox leaders also are smarting over efforts by some evangelical Christian groups to rush into the former Soviet republics after the collapse of communism to win converts.

20.   Orthodox leaders fear that Catholic missionaries seek to proselytize in their territory.