Several leading Republicans who would occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) as the provisional government of Iraq.

Several thousand Iraqi soldiers were killed in the battle, and a very small number of coalition forces.

Several of these palaces were retained by the U. S. Government even after the transition of power back to the Iraqi people.

Several days following Saddam's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, he was among the first to articulate the neoconservative principle that the Iraqi occupation was such a globally destabilizing event that it required all nations of the world ( including the former Soviet Union ) to choose sides in the conflict, standing with the U. S. in its efforts to dislodge Iraqi forces from Kuwait or to be seen, in the eyes of U. S. foreign policy, as siding with America's enemies.

Several press and media agencies criticized loudly the Iraqi Shiia Coalition during the constitution writing process.

Several of the statements that Bush and his administration made leading up to the war in Iraq, especially those involving claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, have been criticized as misleading or inaccurate.

In the Iraq War, 36 photographers and camera operators have been abducted or killed during the conflict from 2003-2009 Several have been killed by US fire ; two Iraqi journalists working for Reuters were notably strafed by a helicopter during the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, yielding a scandal when Wikileaks published the video of the gun camera.

Several hundred Reserve and National Guard attorneys were called to active duty to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Several key leaders early in the Protestant Reformation, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, followed the traditional reasoning in favour of capital punishment, and the Lutheran Church's Augsburg Confession explicitly defended it.

Several nationalist leaders banded together in 1916 under the leadership of Annie Besant to voice a demand for self-government, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the time.

Several of the FARC leaders appeared on the Justice Department's Consolidated Priority Organization target list, which identifies the most dangerous international drug trafficking organizations.

Several groups, however, disputed this: including UNO, a broad coalition of anti-Sandinista activists, COSEP, an organization of business leaders, the Contra group " FDN ", organized by former Somozan-era National Guardsmen, landowners, businessmen, peasant highlanders, and what some claimed as their patron, the U. S. government.

Several local leaders, including Reverend Charles W. Kerr, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church tried to dissuade mob action.

* February 7 – Several leaders of Abnaa el-Balad are arrested in Israel.

Several key British colonial leaders favoured annexation of the independent Boer republics.

Several notable leaders such as Chandra Shekhar Azad, B. R. Ambedkar, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in what is now Madhya Pradesh.

* 1993 – Several dozen tribal leaders and residents from the Ecuadoran Amazon file a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Texaco, as a result of massive ecological pollution of the area and rivers around Texaco's Ecuadorian offshore drilling sites, causing toxic contamination of approximately 30, 000 residents.

Several local groups are protesting this development, including Hackney Unites, the Hackney Liberal Democrat Party, and Stokey Local, a group formed by local business leaders and residents.

Several Chartist leaders, including Feargus O ' Connor, George Julian Harney, and Thomas Cooper were arrested, along with nearly 1, 500 others.

Several rich cartel leaders built large houses, such as the Casa Grande and contributed to the economy.

Several people were accused of the murder including his own wife after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trails and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted as the murderer. In later years the murder was almost forgotten asides memory from a handful of senior citizens, until Joe Towne one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote it into a true story novel " Tongues on Fire ".

Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset.

Several leaders of the group " Citizens to Reform Lakewood " were named in the lawsuit.

Several prominent Marquesan political leaders have repeatedly declared themselves in favor of separating from French Polynesia and remaining within the French Republic in case French Polynesian political leaders in Tahiti would proclaim the independence of French Polynesia.

Several nationalist leaders banded together in 1916 under the leadership of Annie Besant to voice a demand for self-government, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the time.

Several other Mormon leaders, the most vocal being Orson Pratt, rejected the doctrine in favor of other theological ideas.

Several prominent evangelical leaders of the Christian right sent the " Land Letter " to President Bush arguing a just war rationale for an invasion, citing Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of nuclear and biochemical weapons, and advocating immediate military action.

Several influential Congress leaders, including Henry Chipembere, Kanyama Chiume, Dunduzu Chisiza and T. D. T.

Several strikes had taken place, the " first directly political strikes " in what threatened to be an " irreparable breach between the Labour leaders and their base in the Labour Movement ".

Several important leaders of the Enragés and Hébertists were imprisoned and executed by the very revolutionary tribunals they had supported.

Several prominent military leaders ( including Theodoros Kolokotronis and Andreas Miaoulis ) had gathered there for consultation concerning an uprising, and they were sworn to this flag by the local bishop.

Several other members of the Guardians are presently wanted by the Lebanese government, in order to answer for war-crimes.

Several contemporary Lebanese writers have also achieved international success ; including Elias Khoury, Amin Maalouf, Hanan al-Shaykh, and Georges Schehadé.

Several nationalist and leftist political parties and organizations created the Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) under the leadership of Kamal Jumblatt in 1976.

Several groups claim the name Jund al-Sham including a Lebanese militant group in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

Several Lebanese security people and civilian neighbors were also killed.

Several Norwegian municipalities have a stag or stag's head in their arms: Gjemnes, Hitra, Hjartdal, Rendalen and Voss.

Several sources claim that in his carriage on the way back to Paris, Favre broke into tears, and collapsed into his daughter's arms as the guns around Paris fell silent at midnight.

Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace.

Several members of the citizen's vigilance committee offered to support him with arms, but Virgil said no.

Several other passengers ran forward to grab his arms and legs and help hold him pinned across a three-seat row with his head towards the window and legs towards the aisle.

Several different arms were designed, all with fisheries as the main theme, but the council finally chose this one, which is unique among civic heraldry.

Several asteroid groups, such as the Solasteridae, have 10 to 15 arms, whereas some species, such as the Antarctic Labidiaster annulatus can have up to 50.

Several hundred volunteers travelled to Navy Island in the next several weeks, as did shipments of food, arms, and cannon shot.

Several clan societies have been granted coats of arms.

Several other French and Breton families also had coats of arms that bear a striking resemblance to the St Piran's flag:

Several subordinate camps of the KZ Mauthausen complex included quarries, munitions factories, mines, arms factories and Me 262 fighter-plane assembly plants.

Several British soldiers were sent to search Jews for arms at the demand of the Palestinian Arab leadership ; the British searched the offices and apartments of Weizmann and Jabotinsky.

Several of the terrorists received arms, ammunition and explosives training in India or were recruited from Dubai, UAE.

* Several college fraternities use the Eye of Providence in their coats of arms and / or badges, notably Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Several Gediminid Lithuanian, Polish and Russian noble families adopted the earlier versions of the coat of arms with some modifications, namely Czartoryski, Trubetzkoy and Galitzine.

Several small islands lie in the entrance to Middle Fiord, which forks partway along its length into northwest and southwest arms.

Several poems are read including " The Last Corps Trip ", which imagines a Judgement Day in which Aggies are welcomed into heaven with open arms.

Several Japanese islands, including Chichi-jima, were used by the United States in the 1950s to store nuclear arms, according to Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and William Burr writing for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in early 2000.

Several other buildings of note were either damaged or destroyed, including the British, French, Italian and Japanese embassies, Charlottenburg Palace and Berlin Zoo, as were the Ministry of Munitions, the Waffen SS Administrative College, the barracks of the Imperial Guard at Spandau and several arms factories.

Several towns in Northern Germany have a Maltese cross in their coats of arms, including Malchin, Mirow, Moraas, Rastow and Sülstorf.

Several large arms extend into the interior of the peninsula at the northeast of the harbour, one of them ending near the town of Maungaturoto, only ten kilometres ( 6 mi ) from the Pacific Ocean coast.

Several times it has promised to improve our condition, and many it has deceived to us, and it is not left us more resource than to appeal to the arms to defend our properties, to protect our lives and to save our honor.

They had to escape from the internment camp, seize the ships, and sail .... Several hundred rifles and other small arms with an adequate supply of ammunition could be acquired through Chinese smugglers who would get then on board the ships.

Several plots to obtain control of its arms were initiated in early 1861 by paramilitary organizations from both sides.