11.   A military spokesman said that the army took the reports of vandalism seriously and was investigating.

12.   But the Israeli army was taking no chances.

13.   Empty green mine cases stood stacked against the wall of a schoolhouse that the army had taken over.

14.   He was actually seeking to regain the power the anti-Communist army had taken away from him.

15.   In fact, it has been in Ukraine ever since the Red army took it from Germany as a trophy after World War II.

16.   In an expansion of its military offensive, the Israeli army took over its seventh Palestinian city on Tuesday as it rolled into Hebron.

17.   In response, the Tutsi-dominated army often takes reprisals against Hutu villagers, human rights monitors say, though army officials deny it.

18.   In years without big snowstorms early, most areas cover terrain much the way armies take territory -- bit by bit, battle by battle.

19.   Israeli soldiers and top officials say that the army took great care, and great risk for its own men, in distinguishing between gunmen and civilians.

20.   Just last week, the army took over narcotics operations in the border state of Baja California.