71.   Some OPEC actions had led to tensions and conflicts with industrialised oil importing countries, he said.

72.   Such actions have led to a significant drop in requests to grow experimental GM crops, according to the head of the Commission for Biomolecular Engineering, Marc Fellous.

73.   The action led to more than three weeks of strikes and street demonstrations, and paralyzed the National Assembly.

74.   The action led to more than three weeks of rolling strikes.

75.   That action led to an army crackdown against the ethnic group.

76.   The dilemma faced by NATO is that any future action will inevitably lead to an escalation -- albeit potentially short-term -- which will cost civilian and UN lives.

77.   The Japanese action could lead to an escalation of the dispute as the US administration has indicated readiness to take countermeasures against such a move, Kyodo said.

78.   The judges had said that there was no proof that the seven men were aware that their actions could lead to the deaths of the stowaways.