41.   After the vote, Martinkus remained holed up in the U.N. compound in Dili as Indonesians laid waste to the city before international peacekeepers arrived.

42.   An international force first arrived shortly after the referendum, after Indonesian troops and their East Timorese militia laid waste to the country.

43.   Chechen fighters have kept up their hit-and-run attacks on Russian forces in recent weeks, but the fierce battles that laid waste to the rebel republic have abated.

44.   Fighting has laid waste to once-thriving plantations of coffee and cotton.

45.   Fighting has laid waste to once-thriving plantations of coffee and cotton have been torn up.

46.   Following that vote, the Indonesian military and its pro-Jakarta proxies laid waste to much of the territory, killing hundreds and destroying most of the infrastructure.

47.   In pre-Taliban times, the battling warlords who laid waste to this city also were known to argue over boys who caught their eyes.

48.   Indonesian troops and their militia allies, angry about the massive pro-independence vote, had laid waste to much of the country and killed hundreds.

49.   Its hopes of better crops this year were shattered when drought and a typhoon laid waste to much of its maize and rice crop.

50.   Like many others in Gunungkidul, where drought have laid waste to the land for years, he moved to Jakarta to find his fortune.