11. The leniency capped weeks of rescue efforts through legal and diplomatic channels . 12. Gore has established a critical link with Russia outside normal diplomatic channels . 13. France and Britain have both used diplomatic channels to criticize the bill. 14. Defense Department officials said Wednesday that talks are continuing through diplomatic channels . 15. Perceived human rights abuses usually have brought on oral condemnations through diplomatic channels . 16. Frattini said earlier that Italy was working diplomatic channels with Iran and Syria. 17. The time and place of the summit will be clarified through diplomatic channels , 18. The Murnau Foundation protested to the Hungarian government through diplomatic channels . 19. He said the United States was asking through diplomatic channels that Pakistan investigate. 20. He said Japan would express its concern to the North through diplomatic channels .