1.   This fact is reflected in the legal definition of death, the permanent cessation of brain function.

2.   However the validity of the agreement was put in doubt when Karadzic later repeated Serbian insistence on a permanent cessation of hostilities as a precondition.

3.   Karadzic, in an interview with the Cable News Network, repeated the Bosnian Serb insistence on a permanent cessation of hostilities agreement as a precondition.

4.   For his self-styled Serb Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina only a permanent cessation of hostilities was acceptable, he added.

5.   Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew also insisted that the IRA make clear it intends a permanent cessation of hostilities before Sinn Fein could join peace talks.

6.   -The forum welcomed the permanent cessation of French nuclear testing and re-admitted France to the post forum dialogue.