1.   Depleted uranium is used in the nose of armour-piercing shells because its density helps it to punch through modern tanks.

2.   Other hive worlds are poisoned wildernesses punctuated by rearing plasteel termite mounds, vertical cities that punch through the clouds.

3.   The shattered side window was punched through and a gun barrel appeared.

4.   A number of holes had been punched through it.

5.   And that, in turn, could enable the Northern Alliance to punch through defenses and extend its control over northern Afghanistan.

6.   Absentee ballots were hand-punched, the Republicans argued, so there was no excuse for not punching through them and clearly registering a vote.

7.   According to the accounts, a column of Serb refugees fleeing from Vojnic became trapped in Glina as the Croatian army punched through the rebel Serb front lines.

8.   Both at home and abroad, Mauceri has endeavored to punch through the wall between classical and popular music.

9.   But a painful self-awareness keeps punching through that indolent surface, and Ms. Burton sounds every note with rich, muted layers of feeling.

10.   But the judge ruled that indentations where people had not punched all the way through should be counted, and on that basis, Delahunt pulled ahead.