11.   Few movie sights are more primally satisfying than a frisky animal or hyperactive child laying waste to a snooty grown-up social event.

12.   Flu and car trouble and house guests laid waste to some of the plans we did manage to make.

13.   For at least one game, Iverson laid waste to the notion that his wiles and will can no longer sustain his team in the playoffs.

14.   Fighting laid waste to vast areas of Croatia and forced large numbers of Croats from their homes.

15.   He and his supporters then fought with other factional armies, laying waste to large segments of Kabul with rocket fire.

16.   He has laid waste to the game as it existed before.

17.   Instead, his supporters engaged in urban guerrilla warfare with other factions, laying waste to large segments of Kabul with rocket fire.

18.   Instead, Indonesia armed and orchestrated the militias that laid waste to East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, while insisting it could do nothing to stop them.

19.   Irwin has laid waste to the Senior Tour competition and is the automatic front runner in any tournament he enters.

20.   Last year they killed thousands of people and laid waste to whole communities, prompting sympathetic calls in Congress for long-term reconstruction assistance.