1.   The Animal Disease Authority Decided to destroy the cattle that were infected with the disease.

2.   Cattle have been destroyed in numbers not seen since the height of the mad cow disease scandal in Britain several years ago.

3.   If mad cow were discovered here, the infected cattle would be destroyed, and others in the herd would be quarantined.

4.   The possibility of destroying cattle had earlier raised concern among bond investors over the costs.

5.   What a tragedy if Britain destroyed its cattle herd only to find later that the real culprit was a different animal.

6.   At the same time, Britain gave in to demands from many of its EU partners to expand its plan to destroy cattle judged at high risk.

7.   Britain has pledged to destroy cattle most at risk for the disease, improve health standards for slaughterhouses and ban use of ground animal remains in cattle feed.

8.   Hogg presented a long-awaited plan to destroy cattle judged at highest risk for the brain-wasting mad cow ailment, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

9.   If Major ordered the older cattle destroyed, Britain would be likely to ask the European Union to help pay the bill for compensating farmers.

10.   No one died during the explosion, but homes were demolished during the cleanup and hundreds of contaminated pets and cattle were destroyed.