21.   The villages lie in an area facing the Israeli-occupied zone which guerrillas often use to launch attacks on Israeli troops and their militia allies.

22.   The village lies on a road that leads to the capital, and the Russians hold the hills overlooking it.

23.   The village lies in Iqlim al-Tuffah, a guerrilla stronghold and frequent target of Israeli air attacks.

24.   The villages lie west of the Kosovo capital Pristina.

25.   Their village lies on the expanding edge of a state-owned mine financed by the World Bank.

26.   Villages lay in ruins, some with the stench of decaying bodies of civilians believed to have been caught in the crossfire.

27.   When the Rev. Jim Kelley arrived at his new ministry in southwest Alaska, three small villages lay under his responsibility.

28.   All the villages lie along the Boac river which flows between two mountains.

29.   The remote villages lie scattered in thick jungles and act as a border separating Sinhalese-dominated Polonnaruwa district from Batticaloa district, which is inhabited mostly by Tamils.

30.   The village lies in the so-called separation zone which traces former frontline areas.