21.   Commissioner Carl Wood, a fellow Democrat and key ally of Lynch, also cited other reasons.

22.   Clinton immediately turned to a post-explosions strategy, seeking to enlist key allies of the two nations in persuading them to accept the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

23.   Conservatives also lost two key allies when Sens. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., and Slade Gorton, R-Wash., were defeated in November.

24.   Despite this triumph of modern medicine, Washington and key allies now fear the scourge could strike anew sometime in the future, unleashed by war or terrorism.

25.   Dressed in a modest suit, minus tie, Mohsen Armin, a key ally of Khatami, took the podium.

26.   Environmental groups have been key allies for the Labor government in two previous elections.

27.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key Arab ally of the United States and mediator in the peace process, adopted a cautious approach.

28.   Further aggravating key allies is the perception that much of the commotion is driven by the American electoral calendar.

29.   He has also emerged as a key ally in the U.S.-brokered effort to establish a peace in Bosnia.

30.   His comments followed a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key Western ally.