11.   Nevertheless, the ruling military council eventually chose Abubakar, the chief of defense staff, as the new head of state.

12.   Palestinian elections would be held, possibly by the end of this year, to choose a ruling council and local councils to run Palestinian affairs.

13.   The ruling council, with militant groups like the Orange Order voting in blocks, is more conservative than the party as a whole.

14.   The special effects work, particularly the scene in which Jack is brought before the ruling council on giants.

15.   The Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, has postponed a crucial meeting Saturday of his ruling council for a week.

16.   When the ruling council announced the decrees, some relief workers suggested that programs be suspended as a means of forcing the lifting of the ban.

17.   Opposition leaders in Chechnya have begun assembling an alternative Islamic government, with a ruling council and Islamic courts.

18.   Peters said he would talk further with his party legislators and with its ruling council before announcing a decision Sunday on whether it would remain in the governing coalition.

19.   A five-member ruling council is to lead Liberia until elections are held in November.

20.   A copy of the report will be submitted to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, the highest ruling council of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.