31.   He acknowledged that the warring parties had hardened their positions in the days leading up to the talks, a predictable but not positive development.

32.   He included not only peacekeeping but peacemaking, or interposing force between warring parties whether or not they agreed.

33.   He would have tried his best to bring the warring parties together.

34.   Here, the warring parties have not been strangers, but friends and neighbors.

35.   Holbrooke led negotiations among the warring parties in Bosnia.

36.   Holbrooke was the chief negotiator for the U.S. in the peace talks that led to a formal splitting of disputed lands between the warring parties of the region.

37.   Hours before the deadline for the Paris peace talks, the warring parties resorted to deadly firepower to try to gain control of the village.

38.   His visit was clearly closely coordinated with the Clinton administration, whose overriding aim at this point is to get the warring parties into serious peace negotiations.

39.   If so, given the wide gap between the warring parties, the judge is most likely to frame his own conclusions.

40.   IFOR has been successful in separating the warring parties and dissuading further fighting.