31.   With the move already scheduled, he said, ILBE had no choice but to take the equipment along pending a resolution.

32.   Foreign investors were staying out of the market pending a resolution, analysts said.

33.   INEC chairman Able Guobadia said earlier in the week he could not register new political parties pending resolution of a dispute over the new electoral act.

34.   The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires adjoining states to pursue practical areas of co-operation pending the resolution of their maritime border dispute.

35.   It has voluntarily stayed out of the market pending the resolution of the crisis involving its parent firm.