1.   As she sat on a bench overlooking the canal last week, Teresa Canizales compared the American exit to the breakup of a long marriage.

2.   A short cab ride later, I was at the Venetian eating a quick and unmemorable lunch at a Tex-Mex restaurant overlooking the canal.

3.   If the Abbey agreed to leave the inner city for the docklands, the authority would donate prime real estate overlooking a canal on Dublin Bay.

4.   It once overlooked irrigation canals that flowed from the now dry Gila River.

5.   Now, three new condominiums overlook the canal.