11.   But Musharraf is banking on public disgust with sectarian violence, and the prospect that Pakistan could be isolated internationally and branded as a sponsor of terrorism.

12.   Clinton administration efforts helped produce the Good Friday agreement to end the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

13.   Disturbances could be expected because of attempts to amend the blasphemy laws, or because of sectarian violence surrounding religious holidays.

14.   Failure to compromise this week could lead to another delay and possibly to a return to the widespread sectarian violence the peace agreement is supposed to end.

15.   Failure to settle the disarmament problem could lead to increased sectarian violence.

16.   Gina, with short platinum-dyed hair, gold-loop earrings and a fearsome reputation among people who follow sectarian violence, was working the phones.

17.   If no agreement is reached by Wednesday, transfer of power from London to the Assembly will be delayed, which could bring a return to sectarian violence.

18.   In another politically sensitive move, the authorities have stepped up the arrest of religious militants, but now with a focus on groups accused of domestic sectarian violence.

19.   Mitchell supervised talks between Protestants and Roman Catholics that led to approval last year of an agreement to end sectarian violence.

20.   Most people who get killed here are somehow involved in the sectarian violence known as the Troubles.