41.   Promise Keepers leaders vigorously deny the anti-women charge.

42.   Rebel leaders have denied the mutilations, accusing the Kamajors, an untrained, civilian defense force that includes many boys and is supporting the president.

43.   Publicly, Pashtun leaders deny any divisions.

44.   Rebel leaders denied the charge.

45.   Russian leaders have denied firing rockets at the market and have blamed the deaths on a shootout among rival Chechen factions.

46.   Republican leaders denied Wednesday making plans to challenge the possible election of the late Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan to the Senate.

47.   Republican leaders have denied any interference.

48.   Republican Senate leaders also denied that any higher bar was imposed on White or minorities in general.

49.   Sect leaders have denied that they manufactured guns, and they emphasize that they stockpiled innocent products, like rice, as well as goods like chemicals.