1.   Following a barrage of criticism and a number of lawsuits, the company relented.

2.   Recently, following a barrage of unfavorable news reports, the largest lumber treaters agreed to beef up consumer warnings at retail stores and lumberyards.

3.   The heightened concern follows a barrage of news reports in Florida about the potential dangers of the preservative used to protect wood from rot and bugs.

4.   Baghdad came under a brief but intense missile attack hours before dawn, following a barrage of airstrikes late Thursday in which at least a dozen explosions resounded.

5.   Records of the time show that moments before the crash Coates radioed to other planes that he had engine trouble following a barrage of Japanese antiaircraft fire.

6.   The bombardment followed a barrage unleashed by Pakistan on Monday night.

7.   The new disclosures follow a barrage of criticism over Foreign Office handling of the Pergau dam project in Malaysia.

8.   Rattanapol then delivered a powerful left to the face following a barrage of left and right hooks and swings, leaving the Colombian boxer swaying down.

9.   That barrage was followed an hour later with a volley of Katyushas on this town in the Galilee panhandle which has borne the brunt of recent Hezbollah attacks.