1.   Sometimes, he added, new packaging alone can cause delay and further decimate the ranks.

2.   The German ranks were decimated, Henry went home and Constance was briefly captured and held hostage.

3.   The shortage of qualified firefighters has created bidding wars for applicants between federal agencies and decimated the ranks of some experienced crews.

4.   The Tigers have decimated the ranks of their Tamil rivals.

5.   There is always a war waiting to decimate our ranks, a fault threading through the earth beneath our feet, a murderous mind snapping.

6.   If enacted, which is unlikely, the legislation would decimate the ranks of Philippine political leadership.

7.   If enacted, which is unlikely, the legislation may decimate the ranks of Philippine political leadership.

8.   The flurry of petitions represents a new surge of activism among Chinese dissidents, whose ranks have been decimated by arrests and sentencings in the past year.

9.   The petitions represent a new surge of activism among dissidents, whose ranks have been decimated by a slew of arrests and sentences in the past year.

10.   Advancing Bosnian soldiers wandered into the minefield, were pinned down and came under heavy Serb artillery fire which decimated their ranks.