1.   If you wanted to go jogging or snowmobiling, the river dike was right up there.

2.   Many people who were forced to abandon their homes complained that environmentalists had blocked proposals to strengthen river dikes and increase their height.

3.   The government is under fire for bowing to environmental pressure and neglecting to beef up the aging river dikes years ago.

4.   The river dikes are another story.

5.   There were no reports of other dikes failing, but officials warned that the river dikes were becoming weaker every day.

6.   A gunbattle involving hundreds of people erupted in Bangladesh after some deliberately breached a river dike to save their villages from flooding.

7.   Bridges and roads have been washed out and river dikes weakened.

8.   But with the river expected to crest during the night, city officials said they were confident that river dikes would hold.

9.   Gelderland was the focus of fears last week that its ancient river dikes would rupture, flooding low-lying reclaimed areas known as polders.

10.   In Keelung, river dikes collapsed and wooden fishing boats remained moored in the harbor.