11.   The courtyard, which had earlier seemed a killing field, had now become holy ground.

12.   The important thing was, we were here, in Montevarchi, outside Florence, finally setting foot upon holy ground.

13.   The place where thousands of Americans died is a virtual holy ground and will remain so for as long as Americans have the will to fend off commercial encroachments.

14.   The Vucitrn cemetery was holy ground, Pavnovic explained, when asked why he had settled among the tombstones.

15.   To some natives, the street is holy ground.

16.   Within days, he was among those trying to find their way to the holy ground along the Rogue River.

17.   Yet seldom has an event stirred such feeling as the sight of Ariel Sharon trampling on Muslim holy ground.

18.   But the idea was dropped, apparently to calm any Muslims upset about a Christian leader encroaching on Islamic holy ground.

19.   Doing so would go against rabbinical edicts preventing any but priests from stepping on the holy ground.

20.   This attachment to holy ground explains in part why Milosevic tried so hard to hold Kosovo and change the ethnic balance.