1.   And campaign rhetoric has focused not on fixing streets, but on the ethnic divisions that precipitated the war and its brutal ethnic cleansing campaigns.

2.   As Serbian forces continue to advance across Kosovo in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing, talking about the terms of a political settlement may seem premature.

3.   Both merited praise for ending a brutal campaign and a harsh period of litigation on a civil note.

4.   A report issued by the commission described the role of American money and training in helping the military wage a brutal campaign that included kidnapping, torture and execution.

5.   Despite four weeks of NATO air and missile strikes, the Serbian forces have continued unabated in their brutal campaign to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo province.

6.   For years, militants have funded their brutal campaigns against governments in Sierra Leone and Angola with black-market diamonds sold to consumers in wealthier countries.

7.   He has been criticized for appearing on television with Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president, in the midst of the brutal campaign to drive Albanians out of Kosovo.

8.   He rejected cutting off American aid to Russia in retaliation for its brutal campaign against the Chechen rebels.

9.   He served in the most brutal campaigns of the European theater, including D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge.

10.   In part, the ill will is being fueled by advisers to both men whose memories of a brutal campaign remain too fresh to give way to constructive compromise.