21.   Sometimes whole villages from the former Yugoslavia turned up at the border in buses or on foot.

22.   The action seeks an injunction to bar the village from enforcing its ordinance.

23.   That provision was aimed at preventing wealthy villages from seceding from poorer municipalities.

24.   The army used mortars and strafed the village from helicopters during the firefight, which lasted several hours.

25.   The call was from an officer in Kambuga, a couple of villages from Kanungu and the nearest one with a police post.

26.   The Kamajohs and similar groups formed fighting forces that supported the government and fought to protect villages from rebel attacks.

27.   These five men, one official said, had been armed and killed when they came into the village from nearby hills.

28.   They want to prevent their quaint farms and villages from becoming one big uber-mall fringed with grass.

29.   Thousands of refugees have fled to the dubious safety of Panthou and surrounding villages from even more vulnerable areas to the north.

30.   Three villages minutes from Oaxaca city specialize in these widely-recognized crafts, which have found their way into museums, galleries and homes around the world.