1.   In September, government forces moved into Latakia, a port city where Rifaat exerts power, to confiscate a fortified compound.

2.   Some of the worst damage had occurred in the port cities of Abadan and Khorramshahr.

3.   Along the coast of Connecticut lies a group of port cities, all of which have been battered by the loss of jobs in the defense industry.

4.   And a port city often provides the initial impression for visitors to any island.

5.   Anand grew up in Madras, a port city in southern India on the Bay of Bengal.

6.   And in a few decades, Galveston became a prosperous port city, with money pouring in from cotton, banking and shipping.

7.   And in fact, demonstrators on Thursday burned Japanese flags in Pusan, a large southeastern port city.

8.   As the black population moved to the rural areas outside Charleston, they found a harder-edged racism than was common in the urbane and sophisticated port city.

9.   Ask anyone in Genoa, the Italian port city famous for inventing pesto, and you will learn there is one method, one recipe.

10.   Being near the border or a port city brings increased risk of car theft, the insurance bureau said.