1.   Despite its proximity to Kobe, this city was spared major physical damage from the earthquake.

2.   If the town would fly a white flag, the American guns would spare the city.

3.   Readings rebounded a bit later in the afternoon in Boston, but the city was spared extreme heat.

4.   That is not to say that the city was entirely spared.

5.   In January, Akhmatkhanov wrote an open letter to combatants on both sides urging them to spare the city.

6.   Macula said Albanians in Pristina also are generally doing well, since the city has been spared violence, but the crisis is gnawing at them.

7.   Snow also fell on mountains around Athens, but the city itself was spared.

8.   The city had been spared earlier bombings because it was not considered an important military target.

9.   The crowd of mostly young people had been relaxing Thursday evening, trying to ignore a war that had largely spared their city.

10.   With the new material, Peterson said, cities could be spared the expense of building new power stations or running new lines.