11.   By some estimates as much as half the drugs reaching American shores pass through Nigeria.

12.   Cubans, are excludable aliens who washed up on American shores and are now being detained?

13.   Europeans are looking to American shores for inspiration.

14.   Even in Britain, birthplace of chintz, minimalism has been heating up with an intensity that is radiating toward American shores.

15.   Furthermore, their larvae, which are believed to have blown from ships to American shores, have even more eclectic appetites than their North American relatives.

16.   He arrived on American shores accompanied by a small flotilla of hype and his mouth working overtime.

17.   In August, Clinton also put political pressure on the troubled Castro regime by closing American shores to Cubans fleeing their homeland.

18.   It cites a directive from Bush to all ambassadors that warns them not to perform functions abroad that could just as easily be done from American shores.

19.   It makes me wonder whether he has cursed the day he inspired his terrorists to transport his ill-fated war to American shores.

20.   It marks the end of the double standard under which Cuban immigrants were given preferential treatment over others who tried to reach American shores.