1.   A Los Angeles city councilwoman, venting concern, hopes to broker a solution to the nascent crisis.

2.   Failing that, Schlange said he plans to use what is left of her time here to broker a solution to keep her off the streets.

3.   He seeks to broker solutions that are palatable to the GOP revolutionaries in the House, moderate Republicans in the Senate and the White House.

4.   It is an idea that would provoke volatile emotions in Israel but could help broker a solution to the thorniest issue, Jerusalem.

5.   Both sides in Gardez said Saturday that government mediators dispatched to broker a solution to the dispute had not contacted them.

6.   Campbell acknowledged Britain was not going to broker a solution over the two-day Cardiff summit, the climax of its six-month EU presidency.

7.   Earlier Tuesday, Army chief Gen. Jehangir Karamat shuttled between the president and the prime minister trying to broker a solution.

8.   For the past two days, army chief of staff Gen. Jehangir Karamat had shuttled between the feuding leaders, trying to broker a solution.

9.   LeMoyne has been trying since Friday to broker a solution to the impasse that has paralyzed peace talks since October.

10.   Since then, ASEAN diplomats have tried to broker a solution and appear to have backed off earlier support for the exiled prince.