1.   Lending their support and further choking traffic, truckers staged road-blocking demonstrations in several locations around the country.

2.   Searching the choking traffic for his hired driver, Reil suddenly felt like the harried three-time-a-week business traveler he is in real life.

3.   Suddenly, the novel challenge for city planners is building new roads and widening old ones to accommodate the choking traffic.

4.   The tragedy has actually made people pine for the choking traffic, the jostling, the omnipresent noise, for the good old days.

5.   Where federal money is most popular is in the roadwork that seems always to be trying to catch up with choking traffic.

6.   A separate beltway will be built around Beirut to ease choking traffic jams in the capital and its suburbs.

7.   Choking traffic in a city like Athens is not difficult.

8.   Port-au-Prince this weekend was its usual frenzy of choking traffic, pedestrians, rabid dogs and the occasional goat wandering amid the garbage.

9.   Today the civilian police spend a lot of time unscrambling choking traffic jams when the signals black out, which they do almost daily.

10.   With oppressive heat and choking traffic, tempers have been frayed.