1.   And Madden was counseling patience.

2.   But officials are counseling patience.

3.   Editor in chief Merrill Brown answered calls from locked-out users, counseling patience and persistence.

4.   Ramirez endorsed that view, counseling patience when prospects for peace appeared darkest and often offering compromises to keep the talks moving.

5.   The Electoral Assistance Division of the United Nations, which recently assisted in elections in Mexico and Mozambique, is also here, and counseling patience.

6.   Community leaders are counseling patience.

7.   The military is counseling patience, saying those who allegedly shot the student protesters earlier this year are under arrest and will be punished harshly if convicted.

8.   In addition to counseling patience, Powell also said he had told New Delhi that Musharraf had already taken some steps to rein in Pakistan-based Kashmiri militants.