1.   The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.

2.   The city has been flattened by heavy artillery bombardments.

3.   There were also increasing reports of artillery bombardments against Iraqi positions and of forays into southern Kuwait by allied armoured units.

4.   DPK sources claimed that aerial and artillery bombardment had been employed against Kurdish refugees.

5.   The SLA launched artillery bombardments against Hezbollah positions in retaliation.

6.   In retaliation, Israel directed heavy artillery bombardments at villages north of the security zone, including areas from which Israeli tanks and troops had just withdrawn.

7.   On the Somme that July -- where he was to meet his death -- Cochin noted contemptuously that the artillery bombardments had nothing to compare with Verdun.

8.   But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.

9.   A series of border skirmishes escalated quickly into full-scale warfare, with long lines of trenches, tanks, artillery bombardments and air raids.

10.   A spokesman for the Chechen president, Aslan Maskhadov, said the northern suburbs of Grozny were under intensive artillery bombardment.