1.   If the talks fail Mr Barak May be forced into a national unity government with Likud.

2.   It looks likely that the peace talks will fail.

3.   The disarmament talks failed because neither side was prepared to risk taking the initiative.

4.   Those talks failed from the very outset.

5.   He was naturally disappointed when the talks failed to bear fruit.

6.   Krupp said last week it would close one of its steelworks if the tricky co-operation talks fail.

7.   And almost immediately after their July talks failed in Cairo, the fighting surged with new intensity.

8.   As recently as last week Defense Minister Pavel Grachev was quoted widely as saying that peace talks would fail.

9.   Assuming the settlement talks fail to produce results, Jackson will hear from six rebuttal witnesses -- three from each side.

10.   Back-channel talks failed.