1.   By midweek, though, Karzai and others denied any U.S. assistance and insisted the Pashtun leader had never left Afghan soil.

2.   Even sowing that ground is going to be a fight, he reckons, as severe winter weather has left the soil too ravaged to work.

3.   Further dryness could leave the soil with insufficient moisture for planting wheat, traders said.

4.   It means giving a friend access to your accounts, then letting him change all your computer passwords once you have left American soil.

5.   You can leave some soil around the roots or wash the soil off.

6.   A second round of talks between Thai officers and Burmese forces refusing to leave Thai soil failed Sunday and the intruders were seen laying mines in the border area.

7.   An anti-nuclear group on Sunday claimed that the last U.S. nuclear weapons have left British soil.

8.   Many Chinese activists have been exiled to the United States only to discover that they lose their intellectual authority as soon as they leave Chinese soil.

9.   The homes were financed by Bonn as part of the deal for Russian troops leaving German soil.

10.   The United Nations had long planned to move in after an Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon and verify that Israel had completely left Lebanese soil.