11.  The Japanese regarded this as an offensive action and their attack on Pearl Harbor as defensive in nature.

12.  They could become involved in offensive military action if the Manila government requested it, officials said, though that would require a change in the Philippine constitution.

13.  While it is the only Arab nation willing to provide the US military with access to its soil for offensive action, popular sentiment opposes US air strikes.

14.  After a security council meeting, President Boris Trajkovski issued a statement pledging to press on with offensive actions.

15.  After withstanding the initial attacks by the home team, Rosenborg struck on his first offensive action.

16.  After the war, under U.S. military occupation, Japan banned the production of nuclear weapons and adopted a pacifist constitution barring it from offensive military action.

17.  All the offensive action came much earlier though.

18.  Allied planes are allowed to act in self-defense, but Turkish authorities has to grant authorization for any offensive action against Iraq.

19.  Bosnian government officials claimed to have halted offensive action near this Serb stronghold Saturday amid reports that powerful Serbia threatened to intervene.

20.  But a top military adviser said there was little chance of peacekeepers taking offensive action.