1.   Several Republican senators who had seemed secure throughout the campaign easily beat back their challengers.

2.   This place helped beat back Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito.

3.   Two Republican senators who had seemed secure throughout the campaign easily beat back their challengers.

4.   Police beat back exuberant crowds with bamboo canes after they broke through barricades Wednesday to greet former President Clinton on a humanitarian visit to India.

5.   An endorsement now would give Gore thousands of grass-roots mobilizers to help beat back the increasingly strong challenge by former Sen. Bill Bradley for the Democratic nomination.

6.   ITAR-Tass said fighting broke out for the fourth straight day Wednesday morning, but the government side beat back the rebel assault.

7.   Local reports say Guinean soldiers helped beat back a weekend attack on Kambia.

8.   Soldiers from Iran and Iraq have been sent to southern Sudan to help beat back a rebel offensive, a government-financed newspaper reported Wednesday.

9.   The statement came as West African intervention troops beat back an attack Friday by Sierra Leone rebels on a major highway junction in the interior.

10.   Scuffles broke out as a group of government MPs, led by chief whip Khurshid Shah, beat back about a dozen opposition members who charged towards the president.