41.   Nikitin said he would continue to work to protect the environment while the probe continues.

42.   Presidential aides are working to protect Chirac, who is also implicated in other scandals but ruled untouchable because of his presidential statute.

43.   Police, army units and private security companies working to protect farm owners have, in some cases, attacked the farm workers, the report said.

44.   Ruiz Massieu, a former Mexican deputy attorney general, denied ever taking a bribe as a prosecutor and said he was not working to protect drug traffickers.

45.   The girls have been taken into care by a local non-governmental organization working to protect children from abuse.

46.   The panel said the Agriculture Ministry ignored consumer safety and instead was largely influenced by politicians working to protect cattle farmers in their constituencies.

47.   Firefighters were working to protect homes but the erratic behaviour of the bushfires made it hard to contain them.

48.   The United Nations is working to protect Serb civilians in the area but has been impeded by Croatia.

49.   Reporters Sans Frontieres, a French organization which works to protect journalists and press freedom, wrote to President Liamine Zeroual asking him to commute the sentence.

50.   The environmental groups also want to reinforce the technical and administrative structure of Brazilian non-governmental organizations working to protect the environment.