1.   Tanks were sent in to control the protestors, and the democracy movement was snuffed out.

2.   Mr Gorbachev would hate to destroy his efforts to persuade the world that Russia is cuddly by sending tanks on to East European streets.

3.   After sending the tanks into Moscow and into Grozny, Yeltsin cannot expect to emerge the sainted winner from any second attempted coup.

4.   In August, the Soviets sent tanks into Prague, under the authority of the Warsaw Pact, to quell an anti-communist uprising.

5.   It has also sent tanks into Palestinian-controlled areas of Gaza and the West Bank in displays of strength.

6.   Last month it sent tanks onto the streets of a town near Ankara, where the Iranian ambassador to Turkey had made a fiery pro-fundamentalist speech.

7.   Keyspan has already sent oxygen tanks, air masks and work gloves to Con Ed, Catell said, and is ready to send more equipment.

8.   Last year the Iraqi leader sent his tanks into Arbil, the Kurdish capital, in a surprise intervention in the Kurdish civil war.

9.   On Friday, the German forces in Kosovo sent four tanks to defend their soldiers in Macedonia, a NATO official said.

10.   Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked Israel last week for sending tanks into Gaza following Palestinian mortar attacks on the Israeli town of Sederot.