1.   Hundreds of soldiers died while defending the town.

2.   He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world.

3.   Before a packed church, Kane asks the people to help him defend the town he has long defended for them.

4.   Days before, Gen. Bernard Janvier, the U.N. commander for Bosnia, vetoed air strikes that Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica had requested to defend the town.

5.   Gen. Bernard Janvier, the U.N. commander for Bosnia, vetoed the air strikes that Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica requested to defend the town.

6.   Gunbattles broke out as the armored troop carriers rumbled into Beit Jala and residents were called out over loudspeakers to defend the town, the reports said.

7.   It could be that the Chechens will adapt to the new Russian tactics, and instead of defending towns, wage hit-and-run guerrilla war.

8.   The councilman, David Slaughter, defended his town from the news reports that have brought up what happened there when talking about the killing in Jasper.

9.   They did just about everything but prepare to defend the town from the troops of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front.