1.   Environmental advocates targeted these companies through a series of high-profile actions around the world designed to persuade consumers to stop buying timber cut from British Columbian rainforests.

2.   Although the dangers are clear, some environmental advocates have resigned themselves to the bill.

3.   And Whitman is fond of saying that her policies often subject her to vitriol from business interests and environmental advocates alike.

4.   And the action ordered at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, some environmental advocates and officials say, points to a peacetime shift toward emphasis on clean water over guns.

5.   Action ordered at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, some environmental advocates and officials say, points to a peacetime shift toward emphasis on clean water over guns.

6.   But environmental advocates called such a measure inadequate.

7.   But environmental advocates said it was just a first step toward permanently protecting all forests where there has been no logging, mining or grazing.

8.   But environmental advocates and Democrats called her proposal much too little, and seven years too late.

9.   But environmental advocates fear this could be the first step toward draining the Great Lakes.

10.   But Steve Burke, a Modesto environmental advocate and spokesman for a new coalition, Protect Our Water, said the timetable is too ambitious.