41.   The administration has said the Conoco deal runs counter to the U.S. policy of isolating Iran to punish it for supporting terrorism and trying to develop nuclear weapons.

42.   The administration has said the Conoco deal runs counter to U.S. policy to isolate and punish Iran for supporting terrorism and trying to develop nuclear weapons.

43.   The measure runs counter to the open borders and interlocking economies envisioned by the Israel-PLO accords and preferred by Peres.

44.   The report runs counter to claims by the Taliban religious army that rules Afghanistan.

45.   The policy runs counter to popular opinion, which strongly supports the fellow Orthodox Serbs of Yugoslavia.

46.   The plea runs counter to the Israeli position, outlined Monday by Sharon.

47.   The U.S. call for an embargo on trade with Iran runs counter to efforts for global free trade, Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday.

48.   However the legislation runs counter to commitments made to the PLO by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in a letter to chairman Arafat last October.

49.   Verney said the commission cannot know who has a realistic chance of winning, and that making such a decision runs counter to the purpose of the debates.

50.   Vietnam prefers to call this process equitisation, as the term privatisation runs counter to fundamental communist principles.