1.   Other cities have witnessed the hotel-as-nightclub phenomenon in recent years, notably Miami Beach and Los Angeles, even Stockholm.

2.   The workers suffered so notoriously that the city witnessed some of the most violent upheavals in the labor movement.

3.   The city on Sunday witnessed a scene which while being strange and unprecedented also had a touch of the macabre.

4.   Turkish cities have witnessed sporadic street violence since the capture last month of Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

5.   While officials in Jerusalem tackle the millennium as a practical problem, there is growing expectation among millions of evangelical Christians that the city will soon witness dramatic events.

6.   Since his death the city had witnessed unprecedented outpourings of grief as people laid floral tributes and queued up to sign a book of condolences at the City Hall.