21.   Pavle, the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox church, which recently issued a stinging criticism of Milosevic, blessed the crowd.

22.   Queen Elizabeth II had already bowed to stinging criticism that she remained too aloof from the national grief before the funeral.

23.   But the report also reserves its most stinging criticism for those policies or the failure to implement them.

24.   Chavez was warmly welcomed in Havana late last year, and the Cuban media carried accounts of his stinging criticism of Caldera and other top Venezuelan politicians.

25.   Christodoulos has come under fire for frequently making stinging criticisms of government policy since being elected in April.

26.   Earlier Monday, a spokesman for the top international civilian representative in Bosnia singled out the Bosnian Serb leadership for stinging criticism.

27.   Following stinging criticism, the director reversed his decision but Arafat did not make it.

28.   Israel withdrew from the other Palestinian-controlled area on Tuesday, after a stinging criticism by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

29.   The massive evacuations and storm preparations for Hurricane Floyd are prompting stinging criticism -- but not of the weather forecasters.

30.   However, the midfielder, who hugged his lawyer and his sobbing girlfriend Geraldine Lennon, did not escape without stinging criticism from the judge.