1.   The general pinned the medal on the soldier.

2.   Trentham stepped forward and the troops cheered as the colonel removed a silver cross from a leather case before pinning the medal on his chest.

3.   Abrams pinned the medal on Cassidy and congratulated him.

4.   He has described generals pinning medals to his chest for cross-border raids in which women and children were shot dead.

5.   Somebody should pin a medal on her.

6.   Chirac kissed an ebullient Parker on both cheeks after pinning the medal to his lapel.

7.   Grandfather Frost, resplendent in a long embroidered robe and waist-length beard, returned the favor by pinning a medal on Luzhkov.

8.   Visiting Basilan island, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf guerrillas, Arroyo pinned medals on some of the dozens of soldiers wounded in clashes with the rebels.