21.   Only two years ago, Hurricane Mitch laid waste neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua, with lesser damage to the rest of Central America.

22.   Spelling has laid waste to the airwaves for three decades now, sometimes overreaching to achieve mediocrity.

23.   The bomb, considerably smaller than the one that exploded in Jerusalem, laid waste to the inside of the restaurant but killed only the bomber.

24.   The disease decimated Europe and traveled with colonists to the New World, laying waste to tribes and aiding British soldiers who spread the virus as a biological weapon.

25.   The Israeli army just spent six weeks in a sweeping offensive into Palestinian areas that laid waste to many Palestinian institutions.

26.   The Jarrell tornado laid waste to a seven-mile-long path that was almost a mile wide.

27.   The Patriots just about finished laying waste to their division challengers as they started sniffing a playoff berth, but a hideous pratfall against Denver had odious connotations.

28.   The militias that have laid waste to much of the city with the backing of the Indonesian military are either disappearing or blending into the population.

29.   The painting, which depicts the post-performance curtain call, shows a scene laid waste by the opera.

30.   The quake laid waste to the kind of policies that were available in the past.