1.   Mr Chesler said foreign military aid was prolonging the war.

2.   If the war is prolonged -- which seems probable -- it will make the fortune of the restaurateurs.

3.   Among those who were targets of American intervention and who fault the United States for helping prolong the war, the friendship was welcome.

4.   But he also knows that prolonging the war will only make the multiethnic society he wants less and less likely, while Islamic extremism is almost certain to grow.

5.   But none of the organizations are willing to suspend relief operations, although critics have argued that the outside aid may be helping to prolong the war.

6.   But the aid is now being used to prolong a war that both destabilizes Turkey and betrays American values.

7.   But the draft stops short of concluding that their help prolonged the war.

8.   He also warned them that their mission would prolong the war.

9.   Indeed, a few argue that the bomb actually prolonged the war.

10.   It would enable the militants to reinforce their comrades in the Chechen highlands, carry out partisan attacks behind Russian lines and generally prolong the war.