11.   The strike left no outright winners.

12.   Both generously gave away points with unforced errors, and outright winners were few and far between.

13.   If, as expected, there is no outright winner, the two frontrunners will square off on Thursday.

14.   If an outright winner fails to emerge, the top contenders will square off in a second round.

15.   In the absence of outright winners, runoff votes were expected next Friday in all nine municipalities in the capital, Nouakchott, and in four other areas.

16.   It was too early to declare an outright winner and international election observers, although optimistic, warned against endorsing the election as fair until the counting was over.

17.   Media said other Russian business moguls also played a part in battle by trying to prevent Berezovsky and Aksyonenko from emerging as outright winners.

18.   Officially, there was no outright winner, and authorities have ordered a runoff between the two candidates.

19.   Official election results showed no outright winner in the elections, forcing a runoff between Ratsiraka and Ravalomanana.

20.   The bidding went to the floor after both banks made sealed-bid offers that were too close to decide an outright winner.