21.   At public hearings, Alpert said, only members of the John Birch Society spoke as a group against it.

22.   Bender emphasized that these employees could still write and speak as before, but simply could not be paid.

23.   Berlusconi presented the no-confidence motion Friday evening and was one of the first to speak as the debate started last night.

24.   Bernice King, with her divinity and law degrees and driving pulpit oratory, is often spoken of as the spiritual heir to her father.

25.   Bernie Williams intended to speak as clearly and rationally as possible to Steinbrenner.

26.   Besides, those words do as much good for the one who speaks them as the one who hears them.

27.   Both male and female victims of bullying described belittling insults about their looks or the way they spoke as a common form of expression used by their tormentors.

28.   A member of the Soviet army who helped liberate the camp was too ill to speak as planned, Russian officials said.

29.   Adams spoke as the negotiations by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, entered their second night.

30.   Boren insisted he was speaking as an academic, not as a politician, and as someone who would like to see the Democratic Party rebuild itself.