31.   Regional leaders try to resolve Madagascar political standoff.

32.   Salama downplayed that the vote is a sign of a political standoff in the ruling Israeli party.

33.   Since his inauguration in February, Aristide had been in a political standoff with the opposition over disputed local and legislative elections last year.

34.   The advisers said Taiwan must not let the political standoff continue to further hurt the economy, which has shown its worst decline in decades.

35.   The court did not say how it would enforce its ruling, which seemed unlikely to end the political standoff.

36.   The Haitian opposition on Wednesday rejected a settlement to end its political standoff with the government, calling it a ruse intended to restore the flow of foreign aid.

37.   The Hungarians had threatened to pull out unless a solution to a political standoff over a Hungarian-language state university could be found by Wednesday.

38.   The nine-month opposition boycott of Parliament and the political standoff has threatened the survival of democracy in impoverished Bangladesh.

39.   The party had threatened to pull out unless a solution to a political standoff over a Hungarian-language state university could be found by Wednesday.

40.   The OAS has been trying to mediate an end to the political standoff.