21.   Widespread violence by military-backed militias broke out last month after the people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly to be independent of Indonesia.

22.   Widespread violence could endanger the recently approved peace agreement, which spells out drastic political reforms that will give Catholics more power in the North.

23.   Will the talks be rendered useless as they were last year when hundreds of annual Protestant patriotic parades through Catholic neighborhoods ignited widespread violence?

24.   Without their support, he argues, neither the IRA nor the loyalist paramilitary groups can resume widespread violence.

25.   A calamity in the most sensitive spot in the Israeli-Arab conflict could trigger widespread violence.

26.   A similarly contentious Protestant march through a Catholic neighborhood in the city of Portadown touched off widespread violence in July.

27.   After the week of widespread violence provoked by a contested march a month earlier, the few incidents of sporadic violence on Saturday were a big relief.

28.   An Albanian Red Cross official said demand had climbed at least three-fold since widespread violence erupted in March in the wake of collapsed pyramid schemes.

29.   An election in a fifth state, Bihar, was postponed until Saturday because of widespread violence.

30.   Authorities hoped to prevent a repetition of the week of widespread street violence ignited by a dispute over a parade in Portadown last month.