31.   Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to the Balkans who brokered the agreement, said Sunday that NATO had not backed down but rather kept up the pressure.

32.   Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov brokered the agreement but drew little praise from U.S. officials.

33.   The agreement was brokered by the Paris commercial court, or Tribunal de Commerce de Paris, which had appointed two mediators in February.

34.   The effort to broker an agreement came just days before the end of a referendum that President Alexander Lukashenko has used to seek near-absolute power.

35.   The Japanese, as hosts of the latest round of talks, are likely to play a pivotal role in brokering an agreement among the bitterly divided factions.

36.   The reversal came after the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he had brokered an agreement to eliminate language in conference documents that the Bush administration considered offensive.

37.   The United States brokered the agreement to hold a meeting of the three parties to the war.

38.   They promised regulators will investigate whether he used inside information to broker an agreement that would benefit himself and other Enersis executives.

39.   This week, leaders of the conference, the city and the archdiocese have been trying to broker an agreement.

40.   Under the plan, Pasona offered to broker agreements between big companies that wanted to reduce staff and smaller companies that could not afford to pay corporate salaries.