1.   Continuing violence could hold up progress towards reform.

2.   The meeting takes place against a background of continuing political violence.

3.   Judge Clarke said he was very concerned at continuing violence in Oxfordshire.

4.   And the continuing violence makes it even harder for the government to focus on economic issues, Propper said.

5.   Apart from the continuing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, news events of the coming weeks are likely to keep the public mood inflamed.

6.   Catholics and Protestants say leaders on both sides are to blame for the slow pace, and they also accuse each other over the continuing violence.

7.   Continuing violence may provide either side with a reason, or an excuse, not to go through with voting.

8.   CONTINUING violence in North Belfast demonstrates the need for the Good Friday Agreement to be implemented.

9.   Continuing violence in the disputed territory of East Timor has been due less to the national election campaign than to a referendum on independence that is scheduled for August.

10.   Even as the president seeks to build support for his anti-terrorism campaign, he acknowledged that the continuing violence in the Mideast was increasingly preoccupying his administration.