1.   As the army advanced toward Mantes it burned and looted everything that lay in its path.

2.   No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance.

3.   The army advanced across the plain.

4.   In a series of unspectacular and largely unreported moves the army had slowly advanced towards the interior.

5.   As the Mexican army advances deeper into the dense forests of southern Mexico in pursuit of fleeing rebels, the military insists it is operating strictly within the law.

6.   In Eastern Congo, he said, women have been raped repeatedly as armies advanced, retreated, then advanced and retreated again.

7.   In the current war, now that the Russian army has advanced into positions closer to the Chechen fighters, the Chechen forces are faring better, he said.

8.   Residents point out the war damage that still mars the town, and they indicate the directions in which the armies advanced.

9.   There has been intense fighting near Tarcin, as the Bosnian army has advanced toward Hadzici, southwest of Sarajevo, in recent days.

10.   A senior Bosnian army officer said the army was advancing on Prijedor.