51.   A competing proposal containing tighter restrictions was put forward by the Red Cross.

52.   Close family members also have agreed not to sell their shares to anyone else and to vote against any competing proposal, the company said.

53.   Competing proposals are whittled down to a winner.

54.   Competing proposals call for the oil to be transported eventually through Georgia, Ukraine or Turkey.

55.   Competing proposals would condition such support on a long list of guarantees about the way the special terrorism courts would operate.

56.   France on Wednesday prepared amendments aimed at bridging differences over competing proposals on Iraq sanctions, seeking to move the major powers closer to consensus.

57.   However, there have been competing proposals.

58.   Russia, Georgia and Turkey have already submitted competing proposals, and Azerbaijani President Geidar Aliev recently endorsed a route through Georgia and Turkey.

59.   Senators grappling with how best to monitor the Internet in schools passed two competing proposals Tuesday, leaving it up to a joint panel to develop a compromise.

60.   The committee has been studying council reform for more than three years but has made little headway in reaching a consensus on competing proposals.