1.   Both men have strongholds in Quito, which could prove their undoing.

2.   However, winter still has a stronghold in the mountains of New England.

3.   It has a stronghold in pay-TV in the Netherlands, the other Benelux countries and Africa.

4.   Once again, Israeli helicopters flew in from the Mediterranean Sea to fire missiles into southern suburbs where Hezbollah has its strongholds.

5.   Tamil rebels have strongholds in the north and east, where they hope to create a nation of their own.

6.   The acquisition of Remedy will allow Peregrine to expand into small and medium-sized businesses, where Remedy has a stronghold.

7.   The accused terrorist Osama bin Laden is thought to be in hiding in the south, and the Taliban has its stronghold there, at Kandahar.

8.   They also struck the house of a general who is the military chief in a region where the rebels have a stronghold.

9.   A deadly encounter between the soldiers and the inmates could trigger uprisings in big cities, where the leftist gangs have their strongholds in low-income neighborhoods.

10.   America Online currently has a stronghold of e-mail and instant-messaging users and offers some similar services.