1.   The world well knows how this conflict began... and I am certain of how it will end...

2.   A principled response to self-determination claims asserted prior to the outbreak of armed conflict cannot depend on whether war crimes are committed after the conflict begins.

3.   A Western official who has access to classified intelligence reports said about half a dozen tankers had docked at the port of Bar in Montenegro since the conflict began.

4.   But eight journalists have been killed in Afghanistan since the conflict began.

5.   In a rare situation since the conflict began, each nation has now made what appears to be a public concession to the other.

6.   Iraq was on the verge of resuming its first oil exports since it invaded Kuwait when the current conflict began.

7.   It was the first push by the Israeli Army through the outskirts of Bethlehem into the city itself since the current conflict began a year ago.

8.   It was a view that the Indian defense minister George Fernandes voiced soon after the conflict began.

9.   Personality conflicts were also beginning to tear the team to pieces.

10.   Rebels have been fighting in this area since the conflict began in mid-February.