1.   A House subcommittee listened sympathetically to Washington officials who complained that the closed avenue jammed traffic and hurt businesses nearby.

2.   Even on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets and jammed traffic to welcome the pope.

3.   Those lane closings promised to jam traffic throughout the region, potentially for days, as drivers clog other routes into Manhattan from New Jersey.

4.   Valentine and Gill had flooded the state capitol area with motorists jamming traffic and blaring car horns to block an earlier move among state legislators for an income tax.

5.   Police cars and fire trucks rushed to the scene, jamming traffic and forcing hundreds of travelers to walk to the terminals with their baggage in hand.

6.   At midday bomb hoaxes telephoned into the BBC jammed traffic all over Belfast for several hours.

7.   But terrified crowds of people pushed into the surrounding streets, jamming traffic and blocking ambulances from reaching the wounded.

8.   But on Sunday, thousands of followers converged at Istanbul airport to display support and affection for their embattled leader, blocking roads and jamming traffic for hours.

9.   In the capital, thousands of people rushed out of tall buildings in the city center and jammed traffic for several minutes.

10.   The revolt has sliced the country in half, jammed traffic and choked commerce in, out and around Greece.