1.   Twenty-five pickets held signs and chanted anti-embargo slogans.

2.   The strikers held picket signs painted with angry slogans.

3.   American politics used to be a participatory sport, not a spectator sport, and it was conducted by getting people to hold signs and sit in phone banks.

4.   And reporters, dispatched to New York in droves by local stations looking to plant their flags, were interviewing anyone holding a sign of a missing loved one.

5.   Anti-Arafat signs were held in every corner.

6.   As police looked on, a handful of protesters lined up on the sidewalk outside the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel, holding signs denouncing Robert McNamara.

7.   Across the street, a knot of demonstrators held signs demanding freedom for Combs and proclaiming his innocence.

8.   But as the worshipers left, two dozen supporters of the cardinal staged a counterdemonstration on the cathedral steps, singing and holding signs supporting the archbishop.

9.   Comer said members of the alliance held signs urging Kerry to support the amendment outside a fund-raiser for the Massachusetts Democrat last week.

10.   Driving through Missouri, residents lined the sides of the roads, holding signs of support and waving enthusiastically.