1.   Americans and Chinese troops fight on opposite sides in a bloody stalemate in Korea.

2.   But the conflict has evolved to a bloody stalemate.

3.   But the military is struggling to finish off the rebels, and the campaign is starting to look like a bloody stalemate.

4.   It was a bloody stalemate.

5.   The bloody stalemate is sapping the legitimacy of other forces which, for better or worse, America would normally promote.

6.   Outside analysts believe renewed Serb-Croat fighting would drag on in a bloody stalemate.

7.   Outside analysts believe renewed Serb-Croat war would be a bloody stalemate.

8.   Both countries have accepted the OAU agreement in principle, but they disagree over its interpretation and blame each other for the bloody stalemate.

9.   Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, however, urged Bosnians to prepare for a bloody stalemate that could last another seven years.

10.   Russian forces have been locked in a bloody stalemate with the rebels for more than a year.