31.   If the rival factions fail to agree in the near future, officials with the office of chief mediator Carlos Westendorp have said they would impose a solution.

32.   In the past, U.S. mediators had been reluctant to present their own ideas, saying they did not want to impose a solution.

33.   It has been U.S. policy to mediate, but not impose solutions.

34.   Nor did the United States seek to impose a solution on the Iraqis.

35.   They include the need to act quickly and decisively, robustly confront challenges, and not impose foreign solutions on a culturally distinct people.

36.   Westendorp might also opt to impose a solution for the parliamentary crisis gripping the Serb substate making up one half of Bosnia.

37.   We are not going to impose any solution on the parties.

38.   Westendorp was given the power last December to impose solutions in Bosnia if local officials refused them, including the authority to fire such individuals.

39.   Westendorp was given the power last December to impose solutions in Bosnia if local officials refuse them.

40.   Westendorp was given the power last December to impose solutions in Bosnia if local officials refused them.