1.   This has been destroyed to the point where only isolated pockets remain.

2.   Before US forces got involved, the Taliban controlled much of the country, with Northern Alliance forces relegated to isolated pockets.

3.   Alliance forces, spread across northern Afghanistan in isolated pockets and narrow slivers of territory, have long struggled with tortuous supply routes.

4.   Finding blues music on the radio, except in isolated pockets and odd time slots, is still difficult, he notes.

5.   Farther to the west and south, heavy snow in isolated pockets will begin to taper off on Tuesday afternoon.

6.   In four days, the Northern Alliance has expanded its control from isolated pockets in the north to potentially the whole northern half of the country.

7.   It existed in more than just isolated pockets.

8.   THE ERADICATION of polio is so close that it would be a tragedy for humankind if this crippling disease were allowed to linger in isolated pockets of the world.

9.   The Taliban has been in retreat since, with isolated pockets of resistance around the country.

10.   There are no signs pointing the way to the pit in Cibola, an isolated pocket of western Arizona along the Colorado River.