11.   Herpes drugs made by Glaxo Wellcome Plc. and SmithKline Beecham Plc. are currently used to combat both shingles and herpes simplex virus.

12.   In Asia and the Pacific, sweet potatoes have been used to combat asthma, constipation, sore throat and delayed lactation.

13.   Indeed, some New Yorkers have turned their fears away from mosquitoes and toward the chemicals being used to combat them.

14.   It is used to combat the massive problem of software piracy, in which someone makes available free or unauthorized copies of a program.

15.   Parasitic wasps also are being used to combat the eucalyptus borer beetle.

16.   Phage cannot yet be used to combat tuberculosis or the sexually transmitted microbes gonorrhea and chlamydia.

17.   Sufferers also tended to have stood on nighttime watch, when insecticide mists were used to combat malaria and other insect-borne diseases.

18.   The money will be used to combat domestic violence against women and children in rural areas.

19.   The only weapons the agency uses to combat rising costs with, critics contend, are toll increases and the threat of reduced services.