1.   But negotiations by Mayor Wellington Webb and others continued, and on Friday they won assurances from both sides that they would discourage any violence by their followers.

2.   Efforts to win assurances from Verizon making it easier to organize employees into unions in the wireless division are at the heart of the dispute.

3.   Now, Christopher is attempting to win assurances that the current fighting will stop, at least temporarily, to allow negotiations for new rules for limiting the conflict.

4.   Officials say Panetta also won an assurance that no Morris idea could be carried out unless Panetta or his deputy, Harold M. Ickes, had approved of it.

5.   The assurance is hard won.

6.   Palestinian officials have said they also won such assurances from Saudi Arabia.

7.   After the photo was published, the Foreign Office announced it had won assurances from the Sierra Leonean government to not use child soldiers.

8.   Agnivesh won assurances from Brenda Gael McSweeney, the U.N. Resident Coordinator, that his views will be duly considered by the U.N. organizations.

9.   Archer said he also won assurances from Watts and Bush advisers that only groups with a proven record in social services would be eligible for taxpayer funds.

10.   Arafat said he has already won assurances from the Non-Aligned Movement and Arab states that they will recognize a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.