1.   A handsome if idealized aquatint of Cinque, clad in a sort of toga and holding a bamboo staff, appears early in the show.

2.   Dozens more armed policemen and soldiers lined the street, rifles slung across their shoulders or bamboo staves at their sides.

3.   Policemen armed with long bamboo staves swung hard at several young men, sending them running for safety.

4.   The estate is surrounded by a wall topped with bamboo staves, barbed wire and iron spikes.

5.   They were dispatched more brusquely by Pakistani police officers swinging bamboo staves at their legs and backs.

6.   But on Tuesday, military-backed civilian guards carrying sharpened bamboo staves brawled with students and neighborhood youths in several areas.

7.   He has excelled in the ancient Japanese martial art of kendo, or fencing with bamboo staffs, and has appeared in numerous campaign ads in full fighting garb.

8.   Last month, military-backed civilian guards armed with bamboo staves brawled with students and neighborhood youths during a government assembly on political reform.

9.   Police, carrying Plexiglas shields and wielding bamboo staves, charged several hundred students who pelted them with stones and at least one gasoline bomb, TV footage showed.

10.   Police using bamboo staves pushed back surges of supporters from the gates of her home.