1.   It did not stop other youths stealing police radios from emergency vehicles to add to the confusion.

2.   These youths were stopped and their car checked.

3.   At Israeli checkpoints outside Ramallah and Bethlehem, Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers clashed, while Palestinian police tried in vain to stop the youths from throwing stones.

4.   The Palestinian police were seen at various flash points trying to break up demonstrations and to stop Palestinian youths from throwing stones and molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers.

5.   The youths were stopped by other Palestinians, who warned that if there was trouble Israel would ban worshipers next Friday.

6.   Police fired warning shots but failed to stop the youths from decapitating their victim.

7.   Palestinian policemen nearby mostly watched and only made half-hearted efforts to stop the youths.

8.   Police came under rifle fire in three parts of Belfast as they tried to stop drunken youths from hijacking cars and creating flaming road barricades across the city.

9.   Esther McGookin, for example, said it will stop Catholic youths from attacking her home with petrol bombs, as they did last summer.

10.   He said he tried to stop youths at the airport.