11.   Weld also seems to have softened his view of President Clinton since they began standing shoulder to shoulder in their push for the Mexico posting.

12.   Yet paradoxically, in the final year of his life, Foster had softened his views insofar as he expressed them in meetings of the National Security Council.

13.   But then they said he seems to have softened his views and learned how to compromise.

14.   But, like many other former independence supporters, Chen has appeared to soften his views and is not as active as before in the independence cause.

15.   During the past year, Chen has softened his views on independence.

16.   Gilford has shown no sign over the last three weeks of softening his view that whoever killed his sister should suffer the death penalty.

17.   He called on Turkey to soften its views so that the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities could return to the negotiating table.

18.   U.S. officials believe Yeltsin may have softened his views in recent weeks after repeated U.S. assurances that NATO poses no threat to Russia.