1.   Calling for regional peace, the leaders issued co-operation guidelines which included the establishment of a joint body to formulate and implement aid policy.

2.   Bush told aides that the death was tragic, while the eight leaders issued a joint statement expressing regret and condemning violent protests.

3.   But in recent years religious leaders have issued a steady drumbeat of challenges to capital punishment, at least in its practical application if not in principle.

4.   By late Thursday, neither leader had issued a public declaration of a cease-fire, as stipulated in their early morning agreement.

5.   Congressional leaders issued a statement outlining the accord shortly before an official announcement in the Capitol Rotunda by Republican lawmakers.

6.   Each spring, foreign leaders issue carefully worded commemorations of the killings.

7.   Even so, Bosnian Serb leaders issued angry words.

8.   Fourteen liberal and moderate Baptist leaders issued a statement urging rejection of the initiative last week.

9.   From their war room, leaders issued directives through a sophisticated network of hand-held computers to their political operatives.

10.   In fact, the Palestinian leader had issued this call in mid-November.