11.   The archdiocese opposes such a clause.

12.   The prime contractor under a federal highway construction contract containing such a clause awarded a subcontract to a company that was certified as a small disadvantaged business.

13.   The speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, has refused to consider any bill with such a clause.

14.   Critics charged that passing a law with such a clause would make Israel the only country in the world that legally sanctioned torture.

15.   France had advocated such a clause.

16.   France had insisted on such a clause.

17.   It was unclear whether the contract signed Wednesday included such a clause.

18.   Others fear such a clause would provide a justification for powerful nations to retaliate against their enemies.

19.   Such a clause might be aimed more at GM and Ford than DaimlerChrysler.

20.   Such a clause had no place in an anti-terrorism bill, they argued.