1.   Extending patient choice was one of the key aims of WFP, but in practice consumers have little direct say over where and under what conditions they receive care.

2.   Although billed as a primary, the vote planned for Tuesday is an intra-party affair in which the public will have no direct say.

3.   Bishop Robert Hardy, who has no direct say in management of the cathedral, set up an inquiry.

4.   But a proposal to give voters a direct say is pending before Parliament, part of a package of constitutional changes to be debated in the next year.

5.   But deficit reduction is a game in which those most affected by the outcome -- the young -- have no direct say.

6.   Congress has no direct say over whether China or any other nation can join the World Trade Organization, the body that enforces the rules of global commerce.

7.   Endesa, meanwhile, said it wants a direct say in management of Enersis.

8.   It also gives executives from Turner Broadcasting System, of which CNN is a unit, more direct say in the Atlanta-based news operation.

9.   Liu, like all foreigners, is barred from having any direct say over policy decisions.

10.   Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, has no direct say in education policy.