11.   Ramey has an intricate web of well-placed sources, from waiters, travel agents and publicists to parking attendants and hospital orderlies.

12.   The intricate web of Albanian factions has been a major block toward starting talks with the Serbs.

13.   The intricate web of Albanian factions has made starting talks with the Serbs difficult.

14.   The northern Caucasus is an intricate web of tribal, ethnic and religious animosities reaching back centuries.

15.   The northern Caucasus is an intricate web of shifting loyalties and borders, of tribal, ethnic and religious animosities reaching back centuries.

16.   These Russian gangsters are experts in the fields they choose and have intricate webs of front companies, legal businesses and know-how to move drugs, prostitutes and weapons.

17.   Water that travels through an intricate web of pipelines usually picks up rust and germs that may be harmful to the body.