1.  But a hard-pressed Russia has some claim to a share of Caspian oil wealth and historic reasons for worrying about hostile hands on pipeline taps.

2.  But there are fundamental operating and historic reasons the two stocks tend not to trade in tandem.

3.  They want to visit for the same historic reasons they want to visit the battlefields of Normandy or the crematoriums of Nazi Germany.

4.  While Westchester is proud of its tolerance, most clubs, for historic reasons, are divided along religious lines.

5.  Germany also was conscious of deep historic reasons for not being directly involved in the Balkans, where the memory of Nazi atrocities is still strong.

6.  It was a fine day for flying for historic reasons, too.

7.  We did not occupy the Golan for historic reasons but because the plateau is a strategic stake.

8.  Republicans, who for historic reasons are mostly Catholic, believe Britain is an occupying force in Northern Ireland.