Word: surrounds
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Undeterred, Pentagon planners are poring over maps and plotting potential invasion routes along Baghdad's streets and even through its sewers. The sprawling capital is marked by broad boulevards, labyrinthine alleys and 5 million people. Missile batteries surround the city, along with most of the 15,000-man elite Special Republican Guard. "If they come, we are ready," Saddam told a British newspaper last month, reportedly from a bunker beneath Baghdad. "We will fight them on the streets, from the rooftops, from house to house...
...here to create a surround sound for students here,” Leaning said. “It may wind up with us hearing a lot more about problems than before but I would consider that a success...
...building as central to the larger community as a cathedral, but it's key to this one, a high-walled enclosure in ocher concrete with a minimum of window or entryway cuts in its lower half. The mostly windowless exterior and the Spanish-mission-style walls that surround the entire compound can make the church seem to be holding itself apart from the city. The edgy silhouette is both familiar and new, not a postmodern replica of Spanish missions but a sophisticated recollection of them, one filtered through the jagged memory of the urbanized era that followed theirs...
...fire dies when it is deprived of fuel, heat or oxygen. The main strategy for fighting wildfires is containment: surround the fire and starve...
...directly into the roiling surf, as if they were hacked in half with a machete. Thirty meters from shore, this geographic slicing is repeated underwater. The island mass stops abruptly in a vertical fall to the ocean floor, some 1,000 meters below. Unlike the dynamite-ravaged reefs that surround much of Selayar, the sheer rock face remains untouched and teems with varieties of fish, crustaceans and corals most people see only on the Discovery Channel...