1.   Enemy forces have been pounding the city for over two months.

2.   Artillery from the south and east pounded the city, striking the hospital and forcing UN personnel to evacuate the severely wounded, Roberts said.

3.   As the battle for Grozny has begun, residents say the city is being pounded relentlessly.

4.   A heavy winter storm was pounding the city, leaving whole communities without power, uprooting trees and tying up traffic with a plenitude of fender benders.

5.   During World War II, as German artillery pounded the city in the Siege of Leningrad, Kaplan lost all of his toes to frostbite and nearly starved.

6.   For days, American warplanes have pounded the city as Northern Alliance leaders tried to convince Taliban leaders that their defense of the city was futile.

7.   For three months, Israel pounded the city with aircraft and artillery in an effort to pry the PLO from there.

8.   Russian artillery pounded the city.

9.   Russians first pounded the city with bombs, killing many civilians and inspiring thousands of Chechens to support Dudayev, who had never been very popular in the past.

10.   Surely it would have been a target for the waves of U.S. bombers that pounded the city.