31.   Defense Secretary William Perry denied politics played a role in the list-making.

32.   Domestic politics have played a part in all this.

33.   Ethnic politics do play a big role here.

34.   Executives close to Singapore Telecommunications complained Tuesday that politics played a role in their defeat.

35.   For his part, Bush said politics plays no part in his decision to grant or withhold pardons.

36.   Hartmann conceded that politics would play a role.

37.   He and others say that the Chinese government was generally cooperative and that politics played no part in the selection of objects.

38.   He said partisan politics did not play a role in their decision to come forward.

39.   His conservative, staunchly independent politics play well in an agriculture-heavy area that throbs Republican all around, but bends Democratic just for him.

40.   However, some judges said the mechanism of an annual review raises the possibility that politics could play a role in the process under a different court administration.