1.   Nathan Lane, as the sly Roman slave Pseudolus, is languishing on a couch surrounded by dancing courtesans, one of them wielding a whip.

2.   On a poster by Cheremnykh, a paunchy capitalist in a cutaway wields a whip while stomping on a worker.

3.   Other characters wield whips of flagellation.

4.   African peacekeeping troops wielded whips to try to keep people out of the port area Tuesday, but about half the crowd managed to push through.

5.   New Delhi wielded the whip and created puppet ministers who owed their allegiance to that omnipresent, centralizing power.

6.   Silent and well-organized, it crackled with the energy of Amazonian women in jodhpurs wielding whips before a tiny audience in the modern office-show space.

7.   The Safina members -- and journalists, including a British woman -- were attacked by thugs wielding rubber whips and pick-axe handles.