1.   Balloons were released and Czechoslovak flags were waved as passing motorists sounded their horns in noisy support.

2.   Waiting for the lift to go higher still, some released red balloons bearing tickets requesting the finder to return them.

3.   Six hundred and thirty balloons were released at the ceremony -- one for every ten people the fund helped last year.

4.   And not least of all, would some curious idiot pull the rope running across the gym floor and release the balloons from the ceiling by mistake?

5.   And they cheered again as hundreds of red, white and blue helium balloons were released into the sky.

6.   He speaks unaccented English and is sometimes tweaked for adopting such American political customs as speaking for the sound bite and releasing balloons to climax a convention.

7.   Outside after the service, the balloons were released and a squadron of vintage WWII planes flew overhead, trailing white smoke.

8.   Outside the palace, several thousand people released balloons and honked horns to welcome the agreement.

9.   A handful of demonstrators gathered outside the legislative council building to release balloons to celebrate the end of the provisional body, which ceased work Wednesday.