1.   The disputed area also is part of an important sea lane for both commercial and military ships.

2.   Thousands of families live there without basic services because government agencies are barred from supplying electricity and water to disputed areas.

3.   Fighting continued until early afternoon, when the Syrians gained control of the disputed area.

4.   Black Mesa, an important site in the disputed area, contains vast quantities of coal as well as gas and uranium deposits, Tso said.

5.   But Spanish trawlers have remained in the disputed area, under the protection of a naval patrol vessel, the Vigia.

6.   But some researchers say the disputed area was a buffer zone initially closed to white settlement.

7.   Five major disputed areas -- air cargo routes, insurance, intellectual property, photo film and semiconductors -- are outlined below.

8.   He said Hezbollah would keep attacking Israeli troops until Israel vacated the disputed Chibaa Farms area and released war prisoners.

9.   Hezbollah backed it up with an attack on an Israeli position in the disputed area.

10.   Hopi leaders have required Navajos living in the disputed area to obtain permits to build ceremonial structures and have forbidden burials of Navajos in the area, Phillips said.