11.   After descending with a thick rope secured to the pickup truck, Steve waded through stagnant water, checking for signs of life, documents and ordnance.

12.   In Kigali, they were lashed with thick brown rope to posts, black hoods draped over their heads and white bands marked with targets bound to their chests.

13.   Others laid out lines of thick rope for pulling up wreckage.

14.   Soldiers tied the five men wearing pink prison uniforms to wooden stakes, binding their hands, shoulders, waists and hips with thick rope.

15.   The blocks were lifted using a thick blue rope made of silk so as not to leave marks on the stone.

16.   The helicopters, which are normally used for sea rescue, had been tied together by a thick red rope attached to their cargo hooks, he said.

17.   Thick rope used to pull up sections of the plane was piled on the dock near scuba vests and fluorescent yellow oxygen tanks.

18.   Thick ropes hang from the roof of the caves.

19.   They are handcuffed, tied together with a thick rope and put on trains bound for West Bengal.

20.   Private security guards cordoned off the building courtyard with a thick blue rope and formed a phalanx to prevent the protesters from entering.