1.   Georgia, the fragile republic on the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, is trying hard to stay out of the Chechen conflict.

2.   Georgia, the fragile republic of five million people on the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, is trying hard to keep out of the Chechen war.

3.   He was born in Tyrol, on the southern slopes of the Alps.

4.   News reports said that the militants had headed toward Negrine, an oasis on the southern slopes of the Atlas Mountains.

5.   On the southern slopes of Mt. Shasta, she cleared hundreds of giant trees as well as everything else in sight.

6.   The southern slope of the pasture, bare for a few hours two weeks ago, is covered in snow.

7.   Patchy low clouds increased across the eastern half of the area and along the southern slopes of the interior of Puerto Rico.

8.   An undetermined number of government army soldiers withdrew from the southern slopes of Mount Igman, south of Sarajevo, on Wednesday.

9.   Etna has been spewing lava and ash from fractures on its southern slope for about two weeks.

10.   Etna has been gushing lava from fractures on its southern slope for more than a week.