11.   Soldiers, rifles raised, barred their way, but his gutsy stand won him admirers.

12.   The soldier raised his rifle and moved to bring it down on the crouching man.

13.   When he raised his rifle, the Australians shot him dead.

14.   When he switched to binoculars he discovered that one was a little forkhorn buck, but it drifted out of sight even as he was raising his rifle.

15.   When we reached a downtown checkpoint, a Northern Alliance soldier materialized through the fog, raised his rifle and aimed at the windshield.

16.   A loud noise, originally believed to be a shot, sent Israeli troops with helmets and raised assault rifles running through the alleys of the old city.

17.   As the trooper approached, he said Lapoint raised a rifle and fired one round in his direction.

18.   John Tekwi, governor of the West Septik province where the tsunami occurred, stood in his aluminum runabout boat and raised a rifle to his shoulder.

19.   One Border Patrol agent, wearing goggles and a helmet, raised a rifle toward the two.