Countless previous Bosnian cease-fires have quickly collapsed.

Several previous cease-fires, including one last summer that seemed promising, have dissolved into renewed hostility.

While some say they think it will be short-lived, like previous cease-fires, others say it is the most important chance so far to end the fighting.

While Gaza was mostly calm during the day, several previous cease-fires have broken down and there were doubts about this one as well.

The truce itself has also drawn skepticism, because previous cease-fires have proved short-lived.

It had been barred from the talks after the Irish Republican Army broke a previous cease-fire.

Four previous cease-fires have collapsed.

In three weeks of fighting, about 200 people have been killed, and a previous cease-fire, set last week, was ignored.

Many previous cease-fires have failed to last.

The two leaders would be renewing top-level talks that halted in August, during the violence that ended a previous Palestinian cease-fire.