1.   They were separated from their northern neighbours only by religious beliefs.

2.   This war is a bid by the Tigrayan nationalists to whittle down their northern neighbour.

3.   If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.

4.   Because the Americans are getting a much bigger bang for their buck when they come up north, even Hollywood filmmakers are taking notice of its northern neighbour.

5.   If we are not careful, he warns, we could find ourselves being left far behind by our northern neighbour.

6.   Greece objects to its northern neighbour using the name of Macedonia, which it says is part of Greek heritage alone.

7.   He also ruled out any confrontation between Turkey and Syria, which has accused its northern neighbour Ankara of provoking tension by signing a military accord with Israel.

8.   Greece insists the word Macedonia belongs to it historically and refuses to recognise the right of its northern neighbour to call itself by that name.

9.   Greece on Tuesday demanded an ice-breaking gesture of goodwill from its northern neighbour Macedonia before it would consider lifting its economic embargo against the former Yugoslav republic.

10.   In an interview at the time in the newspaper Ta Nea, he said Greece wanted good relations with its northern neighbour.