21.  Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral of Guinea-Bissau noted that candidates in the past have overcome objections by permanent members in initial voting rounds.

22.  Albright is trying to overcome Russian objections to NATO expansion.

23.  Both men shied away from questions about what incentives the United States could offer Russia to overcome its objections to missile defense.

24.  Defense Secretary William Cohen met with Jiang and other top Chinese officials in Beijing last week but reported making little headway in overcoming their objections to missile defense.

25.  European Union nations on Friday cleared the way for a customs union with Turkey, overcoming Greek objections to the deal which should now be concluded Monday.

26.  He asked the vice president how the administration planned to overcome international objections to a more aggressive U.S. policy against Iraq.

27.  In another decision, the ministers overcame Italian objections to closer cooperation on the freezing of assets and exchanging evidence on suspected criminals in the EU.

28.  To overcome Russian objections to its eastward expansion, NATO had agreed to a special relationship with Moscow and insisted they had no intention of forming a hostile bloc.

29.  U.N. spokeswoman Therese Gastaut declined to say whether Boutros-Ghali would offer Iraq anything to overcome its objections to the proposed sale.

30.  UNICEF is trying to modify an anti-child labor proposal to overcome the objections of Bangladeshi garment manufacturers.