21.   The EU says it cannot afford to extend full farm aid, which consumes most of its budget, to all new members right away.

22.   The inmates set afire their mattresses, touching off a blaze that consumed most of one of the buildings, police told the LCI television network.

23.   The national-security argument to reducing fossil-fuel use applies mainly to petroleum and the motor vehicles that consume most of it.

24.   The pests eat their way through fields and even lawns, consuming most everything in their path.