1.   Winds and rain toppled trees and electricity lines.

2.   For example, the list contains numerous affiliates involved with power poles, trimming trees around electricity lines or laying pipes for natural gas transmission.

3.   In other words, rooting out corruption is lower on his priority list than, for example, putting up electricity lines and persuading investors to come here.

4.   Politicians are asking the utilities to give something in return, like their electricity transmission lines.

5.   State-owned National Power Corp. said it expects to lease its electricity transmission lines to a new telecommunications consortium planning a fiber-optic phone network.

6.   The electricity lines dangled from poles and lay in tangles on the ground.

7.   The report calls for easing regulations that inhibit new electricity transmission lines and gas pipelines, including calling for federal condemnation of private property to build power lines.

8.   The White House plan, for example, proposes granting federal agencies the right of eminent domain to seize private property needed for new electricity transmission lines.

9.   Watch the electricity lines!

10.   A nearly constant rainfall since Christmas Day has overflowed rivers, flooded city streets, downed electricity lines and forced detours on many principal highways.