11.   He said he took seriously the opposition voiced by law enforcement officials and made clemency conditional on a prisoner obeying regular statutory parole requirements and renouncing violence.

12.   In that plan, called the Downing Street Declaration, Sinn Fein was offered a place at formal peace negotiations if it renounces IRA violence.

13.   In the meetings, Unionists expressed concerns about forming a government with members of Sinn Fein without adequate safeguards that the IRA has renounced violence.

14.   Jospin has dropped his demand that Corsicans renounce violence as a condition for the talks.

15.   Madrid has also called for the rebels to permanently renounce violence.

16.   Mrs. Clinton has, until now, through a spokesman said only that the prisoners should not be released until they renounce violence.

17.   Mrs. Clinton had said that the clemency offer should be withdrawn because the prisoners had taken too long to renounce violence.

18.   Netanyahu, for his part, wants the Palestinians to renounce violence.

19.   Sharon was demanding that Arafat make a public statement in Arabic over Palestinian media outlets renouncing violence and telling his people that it must stop, Israeli officials said.

20.   Speaking through a crackling loudspeaker, Zubari neither renounced violence nor embraced peace.