1.   Although hierarchy was not expressed by ritual along the coastal strip, inequality remained fundamental to perceptions of caste.

2.   And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.

3.   Large deposits of ash, burnt clay and associated briquetage have been found in numerous places along this coastal strip.

4.   With his vision of what they could achieve, he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip.

5.   The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only, and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining.

6.   Also, the Central Arctic herd is about one-fifth the size of the Porcupine herd and has more room to roam than on the narrow coastal strip.

7.   Aside from reporters, foreign travelers are indeed rare in the poverty-stricken coastal strip, now under Palestinian self-rule along with the West Bank town of Jericho.

8.   But he did not interfere with the trickle of several thousand Palestinians who leave the coastal strip each day for work, usually by bus.

9.   Except for a narrow coastal strip and some higher areas, most of South Florida at one time belonged to the Everglades, environmentalists say.