11.   Optimists argue that bombing has disrupted communications, severely depleted ammunition supplies and undermined the morale of local field commanders.

12.   One thing many were doing was besieging doctors and depleting supplies of antibiotics used against anthrax at stores across the country.

13.   Ovaries in all mammals obey a strict genetic command that causes ova to die at a steady rate throughout life until the supply is depleted.

14.   People depleted supplies of antibiotics at drugstores and besieged their doctors.

15.   Soybeans for prompt delivery soared amid concern that strong demand could deplete supplies before farmers begin to collect an expected record crop.

16.   The Agriculture Department shaved its estimate of U.S. corn inventories for the third straight month as worldwide demand depletes supplies even faster than previously believed.

17.   The drug boosts blood platelet levels and thus clotting ability in cancer patients whose platelet supply has been depleted by chemotherapy.

18.   The index indicates the number of months needed to deplete the supply of homes on the market at the current sales rate.

19.   Then, too, some people like wine as an aperitif, depleting your supply even further.

20.   They are stockpiling canned goods, hoarding antibiotics, depleting supplies of gas masks, buying guns, and learning Arabic.