1.   And right next to the Capitol steps, magnolias stood sentry, gazing at the gaily dressed Christmas tree just down the way.

2.   At Ventura Harbor Village, a faux lighthouse stands sentry over the pedestrian traffic and commercial bustle.

3.   Below us snaked the Seine, and the Eiffel Tower stood sentry in the distance.

4.   A single Marine Corps guard stands ceremonial sentry beside the broad White House columns in front of the West Wing door.

5.   Bush will also take up questions over how to expand NATO, the military alliance that stood sentry against the Soviets during four decades of Cold War.

6.   But a few miles up the Pan American Highway, an armed guard stands sentry at a complex of warehouses, the Corporacion Procesadora Cartilago.

7.   Columns stand sentry.

8.   In New York, police officers stood sentry outside many mosques.

9.   In Nine West, clothed mannequins stand sentry over cases of knocked-over black shoes.

10.   In front of Starbucks and Gap stores around the city, they sipped coffee and stood silent sentry.