21.   If this approach crumbles in the case of Iraq, it will not be easy for the council to take this course again in the future.

22.   In December, when the reform council took a preliminary vote on its report, she opposed its ideas.

23.   It was not clear late Tuesday whether Parks would have the votes to get the council to take over the matter.

24.   Near the proposed park in South Beach, a new neighborhood of young professionals, some oppose the ballpark, but the neighborhood council took no position.

25.   Riordan, who has made no secret of his unhappiness with Williams, said he will fight any effort to have the council take up the issue.

26.   Russian ambassador to the UN Sergei Lavrov even suggested that the council may not take any action on the matter.

27.   Russian ambassador to the UN Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier today that the council may take no action at all.

28.   Several months ago, the council took the unusual step of sending four experts to examine the Czech law.

29.   Still, Schwarz and others say, the council took its time in fully realizing its new-found powers.

30.   The council is taking up the issue again.