1.   As an act of vengeance against the last team that will abandon it, the Dome seems to have placed a curse on the Houston Astros outfielders.

2.   Because a curse has been placed on the men of Ulster, the only person who can stop Maeve and Ailill is the boy warrior Cuchulain.

3.   So he has swung into action and placed a curse on the bad guys.

4.   You need a god or a demon or some other qualified and presumably vaporish entity to place the curse on a person or persons.

5.   A Jerusalem magistrate on Wednesday convicted a right-wing extremist of incitement for placing a curse of death on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin two weeks before his assassination.

6.   A Jerusalem magistrate on Wednesday convicted a right-wing extremist of incitement for placing a curse on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin two weeks before his assassination.

7.   A right-wing extremist was sentenced Sunday to four months in jail for placing a curse of death on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin two weeks before his assassination.

8.   In July, Eskin was sentenced to four months in jail for placing a curse of death on the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin two weeks before his assassination.

9.   In recent years, public figures seeking to make a point in a manner that will attract media attention have turned to placing curses.

10.   James Courtney also sang powerfully as Monterone, who places the curse on Rigoletto that frames the opera.