1.   With the Government facing a fresh possibility of defeat over the controversial social chapter, tensions erupted as loyal heavyweights turned on the rebels during a heated half-hour clash.

2.   As a result, showers and thunderstorms will erupt as very warm and humid air is lifted by the system.

3.   As stock prices tumbled last week, serious discussion erupted as to whether things were really getting better.

4.   A gunbattle erupted as Israeli forces searched houses looking for militants who had staged attacks on Israelis, including the assassination last week of a cabinet minister.

5.   Cheers and whistles erupted as riders held fast to animals bucking so wildly all four feet seemed to dance in midair.

6.   Fighting would erupt as both Croatian and Serb fighters rush into the buffer zone to vie for strategic positions.

7.   Gunfire erupted as the backup officers moved in to try to protect their colleague, the police said.

8.   He looked about as likely to erupt as Al Gore.

9.   In Oslo, the normally fractious Parliament erupted as one to demand that Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik dynamite the merger, which he did.

10.   In the darkened, hurtling cars, screams and shouts erupted as passengers, some of them half asleep, were hurled about in scenes of surrealistic chaos.