11.   As if to emphasize purity of intention, the stage is a raised wooden platform floating amid exposed walls and lighting equipment.

12.   At the other end is a raised black platform.

13.   Banks of lawmakers in dark suits sat on raised platforms looking down on subpoenaed witnesses, whose hands were folded tightly on the table.

14.   A dominatrix in a silver ensemble is seated nonchalantly on a gold upholstered chair set on a raised marble platform.

15.   A raised platform will include concealed heating and air conditioning ducts for the comfort of ticket buyers as they wait.

16.   Candles burn on a raised platform.

17.   Five of the butchers share a raised platform with an enormous white-faced bullock wearing a halter and a crown of flowers while townsfolk look down from the windows above.

18.   Frau Cifka, who operates her outsized Cimbali espresso machine from a raised platform behind the counter, is a high priestess of coffee.

19.   He elbowed his way through the muscled throng and sought refuge in a semicircular booth that afforded an unobstructed view of the go-go boys dancing on raised platforms.

20.   He sat cross-legged on a raised platform, and his words grew more fiery the longer he spoke.