21.   And they lent an important voice of moderation to the OPEC oil cartel when oil producing countries seemed to have the industrialized world by the scruff of the neck.

22.   And would eBay have taken the world by storm if five other Internet auction sites had made their mark first?

23.   Any bright-colored insect would be spotted immediately in this gray world by some sharp-eyed bird.

24.   At the moment, this grim landscape of ruins, mud, and shrapnel has been closed to the rest of the world by the Russian military.

25.   Baghdad has been isolated from the world by a decade of economic sanctions.

26.   Baghdad, after all, has been isolated from the world by a decade of economic sanctions.

27.   Besides, Amber is the kind of kid who has the world by the tail.

28.   Besides, Seattle already surprised the world by finding a way to keep baseball, which is good, since we were so close to losing it.

29.   BHP is the second-largest copper producer in the world by production behind State-owned Codelco of Chile, and the biggest publicly traded copper producer.

30.   Born in Schenectady, Greene had seen plenty of the world by the time he got to college.