1.   Streets around the normally tranquil town of Morton in Marsh were sealed and long traffic jams built up.

2.   By then, they hope the killing of Joanna Parrish will be firmly on the conscience of this normally tranquil Burgundy town.

3.   By next morning, the normally tranquil common near Malvern, had become a travellers shanty town.

4.   A dock worker died a few days after cleaning the hold of the ship that transported the waste, setting off the riots in normally tranquil Sihanoukville.

5.   Burnes said the investigation had not yet determined a motive for the incident in the normally tranquil, traditionally Jewish neighborhood.

6.   But as the magnitude of their defeat became clear to the Nationalists, the tensions long simmering in their ranks exploded into the streets of this normally tranquil capital.

7.   But two weeks ago the violent siege of a normally tranquil middle class Rio neighborhood pushed the authorities to sound a new alarm.

8.   During the next four days, until the bloom wilted and shed, thousands of visitors jammed the normally tranquil botanical garden like gawkers at a carnival freak show.

9.   The recent spate of defections in China has left the normally tranquil embassy district here crawling with police and adorned with new barbed wire to prevent further attempts.