11.   We got a brief reprieve from a deeper ugliness, from courtrooms and labor relations people and even more entrenching.

12.   Border passes offer Cambodians brief reprieve from fear.

13.   But even that was a brief reprieve.

14.   This northeastern British Columbia resource town earned a brief reprieve Wednesday in its fight to prepare for the onslaught of a massive oil spill on the Pine River.

15.   Reynolds won a brief reprieve early Wednesday when the confidence vote was delayed for an hour due to procedural matters.