1.   As the Americans, Afghans and troops from seven other nations press the attack, land mines have slowed the advance in at least one valley.

2.   Clinton noted that the United States was rapidly destroying obsolete mines and those intended solely to kill people, rather than to slow the advance of tanks and artillery.

3.   She no longer has insurance and cannot afford the pills needed to slow the advance of the disease.

4.   Some of that starts with a point guard able to stop or slow the advance of the ball up the court by the opposing point guard.

5.   Struggling on the sand and shallow water, the shark slowed its advance.

6.   The Seahawks began blitzing Marino constantly, but had to slow their advances, mainly because Johnson busted several key runs up the middle.

7.   These rag tag enemy units, now in tunneled positions, slow the advance of eight Marine battalions.

8.   While the commodity price index rose in August from July, the advance was slowed by a decline in forest-product prices, reflecting lower lumber prices.

9.   Rebels have slowed the advance to a crawl.

10.   Rebels slow Russian advance.