21.   NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said Serb leaders could avoid any further ecological threats by capitulating.

22.   The dissidents say the Alliance needs a new leader now to avoid disintegrating.

23.   The council added that some religious leaders have avoided or chose not to take stands against community violence directed at refugees or immigrants.

24.   The leaders carefully avoided giving any entry dates so as to keep candidates working apace on their economic and political reforms to meet EU membership requirements.

25.   The NL Central leaders avoided a three-game sweep heading into the All-Star break and moved eight games in front of second-place Cincinnati.

26.   In a final communique, the seven leaders carefully avoided mentioning the US Helms-Burton bill specifically.

27.   But Indonesian State Secretary Murdiono said the same day that Asian and European leaders should avoid controversial issues at the summit.

28.   Western leaders avoided the parade, anxious to avoid being seen to give endorsement to Russian forces responsible for bloody military excesses in the breakaway republic in the Caucasus.

29.   Pinzon said the leaders avoided discussing the plants because they are more interested in easing unemployment than they are in seeing labor laws applied.