21.   A crackdown on dissident journalists, social nonconformists and vocal critics of government policy has been under way in Egypt for the past several weeks.

22.   A vocal critic of human rights violations, Santos had been followed by hired assassins for days, according to news reports.

23.   Brodeur and Ruud make unlikely managers at Hanford, where organizations have long distrusted vocal critics of practices there.

24.   But another vocal critic of the hospital, state Sen. Richard J. Codey, Democrat of Morris Township, complained that the state waited too long to take action.

25.   But he has since won over some vocal critics with the relentlessness of his withering attacks.

26.   But if Hatch was the only vocal critic, others who voted no made it clear that the protections based on sexual orientation had turned them against the measure.

27.   But Kaczynski took no part, professors and classmates said, although his principal thesis adviser, Professor Allen L. Shields, was a vocal critic of the war.

28.   But several other Republicans, many of whom are vocal critics of the White House, set aside partisan differences, and defended the president.

29.   But the Environmental Working Group, a vocal critic of portions of the farm bill, noted that most subsidies will go to large agribusinesses.

30.   But the most vocal critic of the product, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, contends that the manufacturer is minimizing the health risk olestra poses.