1.   Draining the city after the storm moves away and waters ringing the city recede may take weeks, they point out.

2.   French defense plants and military bases now ring his city like a stockade.

3.   Random shells can still kill or maim people in central Sarajevo, and the Serbian forces ringing the city can still dictate who enters the capital.

4.   Round three commenced when Netanyahu authorized the building of a large neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, which, if completed, would ring the city with Israelis.

5.   Shanty-towns ring most cities, and beggars clog their streets.

6.   Shooting is common in Grozny at night, and the villages that ring the city are constantly under artillery fire.

7.   Singles zipped home from work, changed clothes and headed out by car to the bars and restaurants that also came to ring the city.

8.   Strasbourg, though, has been plagued in recent years by outbursts of violence by skinhead gangs in the high-rise projects that ring the city.

9.   Start in Jerusalem, a city once ringed by hillsides made green in part by dollars donated by American Jews to plant trees.

10.   The Brandenburg Gate, a relic of a wall that once ringed the city, stands in the eastern sector of Berlin, just inside the Communist wall.