11.   These features aim the product at the already thriving market for recorded language lessons in China.

12.   Towns and crossroads straddling Israeli and Palestinian territory used to have thriving open-air markets.

13.   A thriving market exists for stolen artifacts.

14.   But the thriving housing market has done little to narrow the gap between minority and white homeownership rates, according to the report.

15.   In Dili, newly repaired buildings, thriving markets and a growing civil service attest to the success of the U.N. government in rebuilding the country.

16.   Since Islamic Brunei banned the import and sale of alcohol five years ago, a thriving underground market has grown.

17.   Street vendors from Kukes sell goods to villagers like Koldashi, who can cross the border and resell them in Prizren, long a thriving Balkan market.

18.   The once thriving central market, close to the gutted presidential palace, has been flattened.

19.   The oil-rich Gulf nations also serve as thriving markets for traffickers.

20.   The once thriving market here in Libyan goods has become a ghost town after strict measures taken by Tripoli choked off trade across the Libyan-Egyptian border.