1.   They launched a raid against the enemy.

2.   Both Iran and Syria accused Israel of launching the raids in an attempt to block the release of a Western hostage held in Lebanon.

3.   From the mid-third century the Goths certainly impinged on the Empire, launching raids against the Balkans and Asia Minor.

4.   At night, he said, they emerge to launch deadly raids against the Russians.

5.   Abolitionist John Brown launched bloody raids into the Show-Me state.

6.   Both Turkey and, more recently, Iran have launched violent raids across the border in pursuit of their own Kurdish dissidents.

7.   But the brain-dead Syrian strategy of using Hezbollah to launch raids against Israel from Lebanon and denouncing Israelis as Nazis will only drag them into a costly war.

8.   Clusters of rebels hide in impregnable mountains, launching hit-and-run raids on federal troops and mining the roads they travel on.

9.   From the mountains in the south, Chechen fighters will continue to launch raids and exhaust Russian troops, whose casualties are now probably higher than admitted by Moscow.

10.   In late autumn, the Arctic launches early raids across the Canadian border.