1.   One apparently isolated incident can vividly illustrate a more generalized pattern of family life.

2.   The incident graphically illustrates how parlous their position is.

3.   Above all, the incident illustrates the harm that flows when the law intrudes into science.

4.   Criminologists said the incident illustrates the degree to which Americans have come to fear crime, even in a time of declining crime rates.

5.   Despite tentative advances on all those fronts, there have been numerous setbacks, as the IRA bombing and southern Lebanon incidents illustrate.

6.   Fire Department spokesman Capt. Steve Ruda said the incident illustrates the need for working smoke detectors in the home.

7.   He said the latest incident illustrated a growing stowaway problem aboard ships plying waters from the Caribbean to the South China Sea.

8.   Josephson said the Ellis incident illustrates that society has become too casual about lying, and liars have forgotten the damage they can do.

9.   That incident illustrates how completely Intel, a chipmaker, dominates the PC industry.

10.   The couple was cited for violating a local nuisance ordinance, he said, but the incident illustrated the need for a wider measure targeting the feeding of pigeons.