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At one point, he drove off toward Brega, where fighters were seeking to keep reporters back from an ill-defined frontline.

He said that it would also include a delay to the medical devices tax - which Senate Democrats were seeking to keep put of any deal.

Last week, for example, it was disclosed that White House lawyers were seeking to keep secret details of President Clinton's pardons in his last day in office by invoking a claim of executive privilege.

Mr Irwin describes in some detail how its obsession with inflation meant that European interest rates were raised in the middle of the crisis, just when other central banks were seeking to keep rates low.

Again, however, the turnout was less than a hundred; perhaps there had been propaganda from the Front warning that the Americans would try to poison the villagers, or perhaps the villagers were seeking to keep all involvement with their captors to a minimum.

Right-wing elected officials were seeking to keep those municipal workers in a state of second-class citizenship and Dr. King went to Memphis to stand up to them.

They further hypothesized that a "great deal of binge behavior, whether it be shopping, gambling, eating, drinking, or having sex, seems to result when people are seeking to keep their attention focused on immediate, concrete stimuli as a means of keeping it away from some threatening or upsetting thoughts" (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996, p. 5).

Quite plainly petitioner was seeking to keep his constitutional grounds intact.

The governor and Ms. Katz are seeking to keep the messages confidential.

If Mr. Martin was seeking to keep Ms. Lewis from returning, he apparently failed.

Yet prosecutors are seeking to keep more than half of them locked up forever.