41.  Intensive diplomatic efforts by the United States, Russia and Britain appear, however, to have helped ease tensions in South Asia.

42.  Intensive efforts must follow.

43.  Intensive negotiating efforts over the weekend by OSCE monitors in Kosovo appeared to have defused tension just when an attack seemed imminent.

44.  Israel and the Palestinians have been unable to negotiate a peace accord despite intensive efforts by the Clinton administration in its waning months.

45.  Neves said Portugal was extremely concerned about violence and stressed that intensive efforts were necessary to ensure stability in the disputed territory.

46.  Republicans note that the intensive Democratic effort failed, but McAuliffe promises much more of the same.

47.  Saudi Arabia, one of the key Gulf Cooperation Council member states, has been involved in intensive diplomatic efforts to avoid a war between India and Pakistan.

48.  Saudi Arabia, one of the key GCC member states, has been involved in intensive diplomatic efforts to avoid an India-Pakistan war.

49.  The bloodshed came amid intensive U.S. efforts to broker an agreement on an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank.

50.  The e-mails, subpoenaed by the U.S. Congress and now part of the public record, reveal intensive behind-the-scenes efforts to engineer a pardon.