1.   Downtown Jerusalem, usually packed with more than ten thousand revelers as Independence Day begins, was a maze of steel barricades guarded by police officers.

2.   When he shook hands after his speech, the crowd surged against the steel barricades, threatening to crush at least one woman and perhaps even overwhelm the president.

3.   With gas masks on their faces and nightsticks in hand, riot police Sunday peered across a steel barricade near the White House at a surging wave of protesters.

4.   Police have already set up steel barricades, rolled out barbed wire and deployed motorcycle officers in some areas near the palace.

5.   People rushed the steel barricades for a better view, many with cameras in hand.

6.   And to make certain nobody could force his way in, steel barricades were erected at the entrances, manned by three security guards each.

7.   Armed policemen and steel barricades still block off the oceanside area while construction crews slowly repair the damage.

8.   At Rockefeller Center, two blocks from the Waldorf, steel barricades blocked traffic near the plaza.

9.   Authorities used barbed wire, bamboo poles and steel barricades to block roads leading to Nishtar Park in eastern Karachi, where the rally was scheduled for Tuesday.

10.   Police set up steel barricades and used tear gas to stem the religious violence.