11.  Activists have long complained of physical harassment, forced cancellations of their meetings and government defamation tactics like accusations of spying for foreign states.

12.  Chechnya is not mountainous Afghanistan, where the Russians tried to occupy a foreign state and fought guerrillas backed by neighboring Muslim nations and the United States.

13.  It also said the income had no link to a foreign state and would therefore not be taxed anywhere else.

14.  Opposition politicians said the proposal gave too much jurisdiction over Britons to foreign states.

15.  Tarasov said the Foreign Ministry had informed foreign states of its stance on the issue, the Interfax news agency reported.

16.  The relatively moderate government of Chechnya wants the visit to be a state one, as if Yeltsin was visiting a foreign state.

17.  The three defendants had originally been charged with dishonoring a foreign state and foreign nation in public, which they denied.

18.  They regard the president as head of a foreign state that maintains an illegal claim to Northern Ireland.

19.  Those are the very African governments that the United States and other foreign states are courting as pillars of a new and forward-looking Africa.

20.  Unionists regard Spring as the emissary of a hostile foreign state.