1.   The victor, presumably Ken Clarke, would be like a Goth or Vandal marching into the smoking ruins of Rome.

2.   An understandable sentiment, perhaps, when emotions were raw, nerves were jangled and smoking ruins filled our TV screens round the clock in those early days.

3.   And in the rolling hills outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., a hijacked commercial jumbo jet with scores of passengers aboard has been transformed into smoking ruins.

4.   After a few moments, the rescue teams got on with their work in the smoking ruins.

5.   All that was left of Katyr-Yurt was a wasteland of smoking ruins and dead bodies.

6.   His first memory of the province is of mountains of garbage, smoking ruins and hungry packs of dogs dragging what appeared to be a human rib cage.

7.   In effect, it suggested, the government seems prepared to turn Grozny into a smoking ruin in order to save it.

8.   Many Russian officers would be happy to leave Grozny as a smoking ruin and a grizzly testament to what happens to rebels who tangle with the Russian military.

9.   She told of her frantic waiting outside the smoking ruin of the Federal Building as rescue workers carried out the babies and toddlers one by one.

10.   The Deleages rushed home to find the smoking ruins of their three-story house overlooking Ghirardelli Square.