1.   Others called on the president to resign and spare the nation months of agony.

2.   The deal will spare the nation the prospect of seeing a former chief executive indicted.

3.   A week after Oklahoma spared the nation months of second-guessing the Bowl Championship Series, football coaches meeting here got down to their first order of offseason business.

4.   But both nations were largely spared as the slow-moving storm meandered through the Caribbean.

5.   EUROPEAN nations are not spared from the Asian crisis.

6.   He has convinced himself that he stepped aside to spare the nation from bloodshed.

7.   The deal will spare the nation the prospect of seeing one of its former chief executives put on criminal trial.

8.   The deal will spare the nation the prospect of seeing a former chief executives indicted.

9.   Yes, the Canadian dollar was spared from a battering and the nation was spared the embarrassment of having a prime minister whose home province had voted to secede.