1.   Other member countries had pressed for an increase to help cover the cost of integrating east German agriculture into the common agricultural policy.

2.   If European countries press ahead with their own goal, European companies run the risk of incurring higher expenses while American companies benefit from easier rules.

3.   If North and South Korea can ease the tension in their corner of Asia, he said, other countries might press Taiwan and China for a similar breakthrough.

4.   The decision by British American Tobacco comes as the United States and other countries are pressing South Korea to fully open its tobacco market.

5.   Western and Arab countries should also press Algiers to accept international mediation to end the war.

6.   Other countries are pressing Moscow to reduce or eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers.

7.   Other countries have been pressing Lithuania to shut down the plant.

8.   Alatas said several countries had been pressing for sea-lanes that traversed an east-west axis of the archipelago.

9.   But nine other central and eastern European countries are also pressing U.S. officials and opinion makers to join NATO.

10.   Each country is pressing for membership in both the EU and NATO.