21.   His family says he has high blood pressure and has repeatedly appealed for his release.

22.   Hundreds of thousands more have died in neighboring Rwanda and Zaire, and the pope has appealed repeatedly for an end the violence in the region.

23.   In hopes of easing strains, the administration has appealed repeatedly for high-level talks with China.

24.   It could be a big blow for the pro-separatist politicians, bunched in the All Party Hurriyat Conference, who had repeatedly appealed to Kashmiri Muslims not to vote.

25.   It has repeatedly appealed to former government officials, police and army members to volunteer information, but few individuals have come forward.

26.   Israel has always denied that Azam was a spy and has repeatedly appealed for his release.

27.   Karzai has repeatedly appealed for an enlarging of the force and an expansion of its deployment outside of Kabul.

28.   NATO and the international agencies have repeatedly appealed to Muslims, Croats and Serbs to permit freedom of movement through their regions and not to stage provocative demonstrations.

29.   Politicians, Buddhist monks and relatives of Ellawala repeatedly appealed for calm while making brief speeches during the cremation.

30.   Powell already appealed repeatedly to Arafat to state publicly, in unambiguous Arabic, that his people should stop attacking Israelis.