1.   Meanwhile, in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic.

2.   A mission concerned primarily with deterrence would require less firepower than the original assignment of separating the warring ethnic armies.

3.   But as Serbia supported the Bosnian-Serb cause, the couple found themselves separated by warring armies, fierce propaganda and broken telephone lines.

4.   But in Sudan, a country riven by ethnic and religious conflict, warring armies regularly drive large numbers of people from their homes.

5.   Civilians tend to get in the way of warring armies and have since wars have been fought.

6.   For eight days the warring armies argued over who was to blame.

7.   IFOR did separate the warring armies, but then it made its main aim avoiding casualties.

8.   The warring armies in Bosnia have usually suspended large scale fighting in winter, impeded by the snow that will make the NATO deployement so difficult.

9.   Their duties will include enforcing a cease-fire and supervising and enforcing the withdrawal of the warring armies to separate areas.

10.   Water continued to protected Venice from marauding barbarians and warring armies through the centuries.