1.   Once Shamir had rejected this invitation, Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority.

2.   The two leaders had been doing most of the talking, thinking, and worrying over two long days of intensive negotiations.

3.   Intensive negotiations between the main parties preceded the vote.

4.   The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes.

5.   American investigators said that getting direct access to the suspects, which has been the subject of intensive diplomatic negotiations, was crucial to the investigation.

6.   After several years of intensive negotiations, a treaty establishing an international criminal court is scheduled to be adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rome in July.

7.   After several years of intensive negotiations, a treaty setting up an international criminal court is scheduled to be adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rome in July.

8.   After two weeks of intensive negotiations, Netanyahu evidently gave in.

9.   But after several weeks of intensive negotiations, the deal fell through early Tuesday morning.

10.   But intensive negotiations between the two men apparently broke down over disputed details of the agreement.