1.   Amid news media and political attention, a judge interceded to stop that.

2.   Clinton says his instincts as a conciliator stem from his youth, when he was forced to intercede to stop his alcoholic stepfather from abusing his mother.

3.   He did offer, apparently without elaborating, to intercede to stop the attacks in Bosnia.

4.   School officials, however, should intercede to stop student speech that constitutes harassment aimed at a student or a group of students.

5.   U.S. officials insist that while some Japanese automakers have shown an interest in entering a new voluntary purchase plan, the Japanese government has interceded to stop such action.

6.   But in Gagnoa, a Gbagbo stronghold, the soldiers did not intercede to stop the protests.