11.   But the war is dragging it farther from Europe, into isolation, uniting the Serbs behind their soldiers, their Kosovo and even President Slobodan Milosevic.

12.   His aides were more honest, saying the war could drag on for years, as other Chechen-Russian conflicts have, from mountain redoubts surrounding Grozny.

13.   If the war should drag on, the current tide of hubris would ebb.

14.   In Monrovia, many people see the Yosi incident as a result of the international complacency that has allowed this war to drag on.

15.   Less than a year after publication, Haiphong Harbor was mined, and the war dragged on.

16.   More than six months after the Russian offensive in Chechnya, the war drags on, with Chechen fighters driven out of towns into the mountains.

17.   National self-interest differs from partner to partner, and as wars drag on, that often works to soften the glue holding coalitions together.

18.   Pentagon says air war may drag into the summer.

19.   Public support in NATO countries could easily erode if the war dragged on, they said.

20.   So far, the government is controlling the demonstrations without too much trouble, though that could change if the Afghan war drags out and gets more bloody.