1.   Also, the land surrounds some Israeli towns, called settlements.

2.   Historically ruled by generals, Paraguay was once called an island surrounded by land.

3.   It is hot here, so hot the land surrounding the course cracks noisily in some areas.

4.   New businesses are sprouting around the center, and just two miles to the east, a four-ramp interchange sits surrounded by land ripe for new industry.

5.   Once called an island surrounded by land, Paraguay is opening to newfangled ideas.

6.   That land would surround the stadium on three sides.

7.   These are lands immediately surrounding existing mining operations where machinery is and will be allowed.

8.   But perhaps due to the fact that the quake was centered in the Inland Sea, almost surrounded by land, there were no tsunami.

9.   Wind conditions in both those areas are less shifty than those in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, which is surrounded by land on three sides.