21.   The LA convention has faced a host of other obstacles, including fund-raising and management snags.

22.   The legislature is also facing a host of contentious issues that would be difficult to resolve even in an atmosphere of bipartisan cooperation.

23.   The new government will face a host of other tasks, including liberalizing telecommunications laws and setting up public authorities to regulate consumer electricity prices.

24.   The Santa Clara, California-based company faces a host of rivals, though most are playing catch-up.

25.   Public hospitals is expected to face a host of problems after the health care budget is cut.

26.   Babies with poorly educated mothers are more likely to die in the first year and face a host of other problems growing up, the report noted.

27.   But Jiang faces a host of challenges as he steers China down a road to prosperity that Deng laid out.

28.   But Kostunica still faces a host of domestic political obstacles to full consolidation of his power.

29.   Clinton faces host of other problems.

30.   His side faces host France, the Group C winner, in Lens on Sunday, the same day Nigeria plays Denmark at Saint-Denis.