1.   And it transformed the city into a thriving inland port.

2.   As thick plumes of smoke billowed into the sky across the Potomac, the city was transformed in minutes.

3.   But his New York shots, in which the city is transformed into a fantasy realm of glowing towers, remain his most distinctive contribution.

4.   But many residents of the regional capital interviewed here and along the road spoke of how the city has been transformed since the fighting on Saturday.

5.   Crews had worked around the clock to transform six city blocks into a secure party zone.

6.   Even less than ordinarily a place for daily living, the city is transformed into a symbol of itself.

7.   For a moment, at least, this Southern city has been transformed into the most cosmopolitan place on earth.

8.   From the time of Antoni Gaudi, whose modernist style transformed the city a century ago, architects have been treated with reverence here.

9.   Hartsfield, then, may offer a shining example of how an airport can become a giant and help transform a city into a global crossroads.

10.   It has enjoyed the kind of high-tech-industrial explosion that has transformed other cities in the West.