11.  In other cases, fuel-laden ships and trucks are being allowed to leave ports even when Albanians have withheld approval, the report said.

12.  Investors who had bought shares in recent weeks said they were resentful of the French government which withheld approval of the Generali and Allianz bids.

13.  Johnson said senior U.S. officials are studying how the United States should react if the EU withholds approval of the Boeing merger.

14.  Rafferty dismissed concerns that shareholders might withhold approval for the deal in hopes of a higher price.

15.  Schering-Plough told investors early last year that the FDA was withholding approval of Clarinex because of problems that government inspectors had found in its factories.

16.  Since then, the Seoul government has been withholding the approvals South Korean companies need to engage in business in the North.

17.  Stockman forced a reluctant Congress to negotiate cost-saving reforms by withholding presidential approval for new projects.

18.  The administration said approval should be withheld because Canada had not yet agreed to open its skies to U.S. satellite companies.

19.  The AFL-CIO said it joined the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in calling on state and federal agencies to withhold approval of the plan.

20.  The board threatened to withhold approval unless the company promised to comply with the ordinance.