11.   No substantive negotiations were held Tuesday.

12.   Peres is under instructions from the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to refrain from substantive negotiations with Arafat.

13.   Sharon has insisted that a durable cease-fire precede substantive political negotiations, although he last Friday dropped a previous requirement for seven days of absolute quiet.

14.   That suggested that Arafat would not easily abandon his demand for substantive political negotiations.

15.   The talks will not cover any substantive negotiations over market share.

16.   The two sides are expected to hold their first substantive negotiations in more than a month on Thursday.

17.   They accused Bush of seeking indefinite postponement of substantive negotiations toward Palestinian statehood by setting impossible and even self-defeating conditions.

18.   We encourage the acceleration of substantive negotiations on protocol issues and market access with a view to achieving universality of WTO membership.

19.   With their earlier pledges of bipartisanship giving way to rancor, leaders of both parties were openly pessimistic Thursday about getting substantive negotiations started soon.

20.   After presenting initial statements Thursday, the two sides got down to substantive negotiations Friday with the length of a proposed cease-fire and its proposed starting date key issues.