11.   Besides banning soft money, it would limit the ability of outside advocacy groups to run thinly disguised campaign advertisements in the period before elections.

12.   Because some of those cases had been lodged by outside groups after three House members refused, the status of the complaints was left ambiguous Thursday.

13.   Both Besigye and several outside groups say his supporters have been arrested, harassed and intimidated in a systematic way, they say, by state security forces.

14.   But echoing comments made by Cheney over the weekend, Bush said that providing that information would compromise his ability to solicit information from outside groups.

15.   But some of its proposals have still been controversial among House members such as one that allows outside groups to file complaints directly to the committee.

16.   But there were indications Sunday that outside groups not connected to political parties had their own reservations, which could jeopardize the deal.

17.   But the full House, after second thoughts from some senior members of the committee, backed away from giving an outside group such wide powers.

18.   By dictating the agenda on the issues, these outside groups could bring about a nationalization of elections that have traditionally been fought at the local level.

19.   Chief executives are in high demand, but few speak to outside groups.

20.   Clinton has raised soft money, and while Lazio has not, outside groups not connected to his campaign have bought ads to help him.