1.   And it has persuaded the Security Council to authorize merely a regional monitoring force, which would be deployed only after a lasting cease-fire takes hold.

2.   Brady bonds could fall further if a belief takes hold among investors the Fed will raise rates, analysts said.

3.   A spokesman for the Environmental Working Group said atrazine will be affected as the new food law takes hold.

4.   But officials of both countries say there is a long way to go before negotiations take hold and actually produce a treaty.

5.   But the mother and her children remain constant as the cold takes hold.

6.   Demand for copper is falling as summer in North America takes hold, when factories close or reduce output.

7.   How many times must the facts lead to the same conclusion before reality takes hold among the believers of fiction, fantasy, outrageous misrepresentation and flat-out lies?

8.   It will be years before m-commerce takes hold in a serious way.

9.   Shea tells students in his English classes on occasion that he thinks the printed word will make a comeback as Internet fatigue takes hold.

10.   Still, in the view of the state, the public-school students will stand at a high academic achievement level as the new standards take hold.