21.   Valentine said, dismissing a suggestion that it was a deliberate act of intimidation by Clemens.

22.   A cyanide spill that killed thousands of fish last week and poisoned Romanians who ate them was a deliberate act, a government official said Monday.

23.   A fired shipyard employee gunned down two men in a deliberate act of revenge that was elaborately plotted, prosecutors alleged in filing murder charges Friday.

24.   Demonstrators waved Chinese flags and shouted anti-American slogans, criticizing what protest leaders claimed was a deliberate act of aggression against China.

25.   During opening arguments Wednesday, Kmart attorney Rodney Parker told jurors Ryan Eslinger, though mentally ill, was responsible for his own deliberate act.

26.   He said that information all but confirms the explosion was a deliberate act of sabotage, not an accident.

27.   It could not be determined whether it was a regular malfunction or a deliberate act.

28.   The law does not propose to legalize euthanasia or mercy killing, which is a deliberate act by a doctor to terminate the life of a patient.

29.   Washington said the attack was a mistake, but China called it a deliberate act.

30.   He suggested the attack was a deliberate act by an organised group.