Acheiving dynamic parallel approval

Hi,
I am trying to use a decision step to send the approval request to a list of agents specified in a multiline container element. I am able to generate as many parallel branches as the number of agents. I want to acheive the following once this is done:
1) The workflow should not continue unless all approvers have approved a request (this can be regarded as an AND operation)
2)The workflow should continue even if one approver rejects a request. Also if any one approver rejects, the workitem should disappear for all other approvers.
A related question is as follows:
How do we specify an End condition for a decision step using a multiline container element. The end condition doesnt seem to be working for me. A step by step approach with some screenshots may be helpful.
Thanks,
Mudit

Hi Vinoth,
Your solution seems to be interesting. I will try it and let you know if it works for me. However, I tried a similar approach where I was raising an exception in the reject branch of the User Decision step (which uses a multiline container element) using the same Process Control step and was trying to catch it in a block element. But the workflow throws up an error with the way I tried. I will try the fork method which you have suggested.
Also I am interested in knowing if I can make use of the End Condition for this purpose which can be specified in the miscellaneous tab of the UD step where we specify the Multiline Container element. I am not sure when that End condition would be triggered.  If somebody has got this End Condition to work for him, can you share the exact steps that you followed for this?
Thanks for all your time.

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