21.   Because impeachment is a political process, the House Republican leadership had a right to make this political decision.

22.   Bravo faced his first major political decision minutes after he was sworn in late Saturday at a party convention in a Mexico City hotel.

23.   A broader link that would actually combine the two would be a more political decision, analysts said.

24.   A political decision has been taken to go ahead with schemes that had been under study for decades.

25.   Aides to the governor, a Republican, say the suit is a misguided attempt to have the courts dictate what is rightly a political decision.

26.   But by refusing to parole him, Guigou, a socialist, can avoid what is still a difficult political decision.

27.   But as the Palestinian negotiations demonstrated, technical problems can be worked out once the political decision is made to strike a deal.

28.   But in the end that has to be a political decision, one that can only be made by President Clinton.

29.   But in the end, officials say, any compensation to Holocaust victims and their heirs will require a series of political decisions.

30.   But inequities that accumulated over the decades through legal rulings, political decisions and shifts in constructions costs persist.