The company's chairman, Gunter Thielen, insists that he remains committed.

The chairman insisted that he was merely living with what he was given, and that his role was not to lobby Albany for more.

But Apotex's chairman, Barry Sherman, insists that his company will win its fight, and some analysts are starting to believe him.

The chairman had also insisted that there was no partisan split on how the committee should act.

The chairman insisted that despite the economy's sluggish growth this year, "things are not doing all that badly."

Warner's chairman insisted last week that his contract had not been changed.

The parole board's chairman, Andrew B. Consovoy, had insisted for months that they were eliminating a backlog that was much worse a year ago.

But despite all these hurdles, Olivetti's chairman, Roberto Colaninno, insists the logic of the offer is clear.

The panel's chairman, John Hope Franklin, aghast, insisted that any discussion of race be a discussion of slavery and its legacy.

However, the chairman, Mr Markov, insisted that it was not appropriate to urge excision of a view that happened to conflict with current orthodoxy.