1.   But now the ship was almost ready and though the uneasy peace remained intact, soon it would be broken.

2.   But even as the principal figures talked of displacing old sorrows with new aspirations, they were bluntly reminded that full Middle East peace remains elusive.

3.   But Slavic Macedonians do not feel they have many reasons to trust him, and peace here remains decidedly tentative.

4.   But the peace here remains tenuous.

5.   Egypt and Israel made peace two decades ago, but the peace has remained cold, with anti-Israeli sentiment running deep among the Egyptian public.

6.   For this peace remains to be defined.

7.   In his interview, Museveni was gentler, saying that the peace remained still fragile and that Uganda needed him for another five years.

8.   It looked as if peace remained as elusive as ever.

9.   NATO commanders of the peace-keeping force have admitted that peace will remain fragile here until reconstruction begins.

10.   Permanent peace remains as elusive as ever.