11.   Police responded by firing dozens of plastic bullets.

12.   Prime Minister Tony Blair should also ban plastic bullets, which police have not used elsewhere in Britain.

13.   Police responded by firing plastic bullets.

14.   Rioters in a neighborhood near the Belfast city center threw flaming gasoline bombs at the police, who pushed the attackers back by firing plastic bullets.

15.   Sunday night the rioters who threw gasoline bombs at police and in turn dodged plastic bullets were only several hundred, down from thousands on the two previous nights.

16.   The most seriously injured, a man who was struck in the neck with a plastic bullet, was still hospitalized last night.

17.   The police responded by firing plastic bullets.

18.   The police said they fired five plastic bullets and made five arrests.

19.   The police said they fired rarely used plastic bullets.

20.   The police responded by firing plastic bullets, which are rarely deadly.