1.   Among other things, Ramos-Horta wants Washington to send an envoy to mediate the conflict.

2.   Diplomatic efforts are likely to intensify now that Russia has taken a lead role in trying to mediate the conflict.

3.   Despite various international attempts to mediate the conflict and come up with a plan for power-sharing among the two groups, it flared again in April.

4.   He has stood his ground in a series of meetings with federal officials, who have sought unsuccessfully to mediate the conflict.

5.   I hate reading manuals and resent the time I have to spend configuring dip switches, loading device drivers, mediating IRQ conflicts and suffering other nonproductive distractions.

6.   In early June, implacable government hostility forced the bishop of Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz Garcia, to abandon efforts to mediate the conflict.

7.   Moscow has been pressing for the UN chief to take a more active role in mediating the conflict.

8.   Nyerere, the Tanzanian statesman mediating the conflict, said the constant finger-pointing by both sides had become the biggest obstacle to talks.

9.   Police can mediate conflicts and work with teachers in law-related lessons.

10.   Russia has consistently refused offers to mediate the conflict, although this week it again opened the way for European observers to travel to Chechnya.