1.   A quick end, rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall.

2.   Hopes for a quick end of the crisis are fading fast.

3.   And very early on, Greece was arguing within NATO councils for a quick end to the bombing.

4.   At that time, the US government thought the embargo might bring a quick end to this upstart pest in its backyard.

5.   Baghdad, seeking a quick end to all oil sanctions, long resisted the program, and thus it did not actually get under way until late last year.

6.   Babbitt has said that his comments were an attempt to bring a quick end to his meeting with Eckstein.

7.   A good April on the road put a quick end to such thinking.

8.   A quick end to the Gramm-Buchanan tussle could leave a strengthened right-winger standing to challenge Bob Dole and possibly Steve Forbes.

9.   A very quick end.

10.   Albert Belle, mired in another controversial incident, met on Wednesday with baseball officials in the hope of producing a quick end to his latest problem.