11.   Indeed, dozens of people on both sides answered with an emphatic no when asked if the violence that has tormented them for years would ever end.

12.   The answer, Meador contends, is an emphatic no.

13.   Voters responded with an emphatic no.

14.   When asked whether he will coach again, he gave an emphatic no.

15.   But Dr. William R. Keye Jr., president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, answers the same question with an emphatic no.