1.   Because of the weather, the parade was a total disaster.

2.   Parades are the very stuff of Protestant politics.

3.   The fashion parade was absolutely brilliant.

4.   The audience applauded, and the parade was on.

5.   There will also be a parade through central Middlesbrough, and environmental displays.

6.   Almost lost in the tumult was a parade of network executives confessing their errors and promising that new procedures would prevent future debacles.

7.   Among other companies in the state index was a parade of other stocks that make products used on the Internet, a global computer communications network.

8.   Among those who led the leg-revealing parade was designer Donna Karan.

9.   And the parade is not over.