11.   He added he was optimistic that his meetings with President Bush on Thursday and Friday, when the conference ends, would restart talks on Mexican immigration.

12.   If the conference ended in victory, it was a bitter one for Samaranch, with questions about his leadership of the IOC filtering into the debate on doping.

13.   Not only did the conference end but the snakes began a small war of their own.

14.   Once that renewal conference ends, much of the steam behind a test ban will dissipate.

15.   The conference ended Saturday evening at Longfellow Hall.

16.   The conference ends today at Phoenix Civic Plaza with workshops on domestic violence, voting and cancer.

17.   The pouring rain and gale-force winds did not relent until the conference ended.