11.   But along the nearly empty streets, soldiers remained crouched beside tree trunks.

12.   Drained of their sharp graphic style, these drawings of towers anticipate the empty streets and bleak plazas of the modern city, abstractions devoid of weight or depth.

13.   Elsewhere on the nearly empty streets, hastily written signs on the doors of darkened stores made new souvenirs.

14.   For part of the route, the People Mover takes travelers through an urban ghost town of abandoned hotels, vacant stores and nearly empty streets.

15.   In Dili, young men, some of them concealing weapons, roam the mostly empty streets.

16.   In front of a building that looks much like the New York Stock Exchange, waste paper swirls on an empty street.

17.   In the daytime, only the brave and the foolhardy emerged to join the soldiers on the empty streets.

18.   Many of the heavily armed Muslim factions strutted through largely empty streets of the enclaves loyal to Israel and its SLA allies.

19.   Outside, a Muni bus chugs by, echoing in the empty street.

20.   Party of God leaders remained nervously entrenched in their southern Beirut headquarters on Friday, with tense gunmen patrolling empty streets where Israeli rockets struck on Friday and Thursday.