31.  What better time to meet with friends and family and pray to God?

32.  Paul said he had already met several times with Sattar but was careful not to speak in details about anything.

33.  Pope John Paul II has often expressed his desire to bring the churches closer together, and the two have met several times.

34.  PAN members proposed lawmakers replace the annual talks with permanent work committees that would meet several times a year to address binational concerns.

35.  Airline and ports officials met several times to try to resolve the dispute.

36.  Ahtisaari, Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott have met several times, but have produced no breakthroughs.

37.  Ambassadors from the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China have met three times to try and narrow their differences.

38.  Ambassadors from the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China have met three times to try to narrow their differences.

39.  Berlusconi met several times with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and spoke with Italian business executives based in the North African country.

40.  But hours after the scheduled noon meeting time, Kabila was nowhere to be found.