21.   Britain has tough export controls, but in this sale to the Indian religious sect, none of the arms touched British soil and no British documents were involved.

22.   But a coalition of software companies, privacy groups and others fighting for an across-the-board lifting of export controls on encryption called the policy shift insignificant.

23.   But it has unwisely relaxed export controls and encouraged sales of advanced technology that could compromise American defense secrets.

24.   But the prospect of heightened export control has Workman from the Chamber of Commerce up in arms.

25.   But that has run counter to a movement in Congress to tighten other export controls, especially to countries like China, and the result has been a stalemate.

26.   But the administration understands that export controls will never work as long as the software is available here.

27.   But whether the export controls were actually working or whether the inspectors installed by Putin at the nuclear institutes were effective was an open question, the official said.

28.   But when the same components are embedded in a satellite, the whole unit falls under the export controls of the Commerce Department.

29.   By the end of the Clinton administration, the Clipper proposal was dead and the export controls were largely lifted.

30.   Cisco-ites want the world to know that their company persuaded the White House to ease some export controls on the sale of encryption systems.