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Refugees descended on the city, its population swelling to a million in less than a year.

That superstar descended on a small coastal town, which splashed across the front page of the local newspaper.

on the way down , only three other teachers and i descended on foot , and the others all came down in cable cars.

22and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove.

As you can imagine when New Zealand Government blew the whistle in Beijing a very heavy hand then descended on the local authorities.

Telephone calls descended on me from Capitol Hill urging me to stop dragging my feet on arms supply .

That superstar descended on a small coalition, which was splashed across the front page of the local newspaper.

He had to shut down and go home because of the bombings as a sense of foreboding descended on the capital.

With the fog of war descended on this once tranquil farming community, who exactly is engaged in the battle in Deraa remains far from clear.

Chief Petty Officer Albert Shannon descended on the helicopter's 50-foot cable wearing a wet suit with a glow stick hooked to his goggles.

One of his big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's head.

The tens of thousands of buyers who recently descended on southern China were a formidable sight.

Then last week, a thick blanket of smog descended on the city as fires, not far to the south and the east, burnt out of control.

The winter snows now descended on the Totenkopf's sector, freezing the German advance against Leningrad.

The guerrillas descended on the enemy.

He could only wait as immigration authorities and the police descended on him.

Anti-Qaddafi fighters rapidly descended on the scene, telling Reuters they saw people fleeing through some nearby woods and gave pursuit.

Senior ministers have descended on Delhi, while Indian journalists have been offered press junkets Down Under.

Markets looked more risk adverse today with flows favoring the yen and dollar as a myriad of factors descended on the markets.

Because of all the chaos that descended on New Orleans, the acts of heroism often took the form of mini-rebellions against the bureaucracy.

The German records show the gloom that descended on military circles in Rome.

The lust to kill had suddenly descended on her.

In recent months Republican kingmakers have quietly descended on Indianapolis for private dinners.

A light dust storm descended on Lanzhou city, provincial capital of northwestern China's Gansu Province, on Tuesday evening.

The Chinese security forces descended on them, "whooping and hollering, " and they gave themselves up to the inevitable.

Naturally, we all descended on his place after school-sometimes during school-to drink and do drugs.

Large mobs of half-starved and vindictive townsmen descended on villages to seize food from farmers accused of hoarding.

Narrator: The barbarians to the east numbered in the thousands, and descended on the Spartans, without mercy.

"Political operatives" have descended on the state to dig up dirt and file ethics complaints against her.

And it is certainly not the coldest air that has descended on the United States.

The wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own protection.

It was after midnight when the team of U. S. commandos descended on the al-Qaeda chief's Abbottabad lair.

Tension descended on these children when it was time for departure, since they didn't know whether they could adapt to life without parents.

A gang of 10 descended on Erika Gandara's home in Guadalupe, set the house and 2 cars on fire, and ran off with her, witnesses said.

Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt.

On the day before our departure, several bus loads of tourists descended on the town.

Hours earlier, arsonists descended on three churches in Kuala Lumpur.

This time they've descended on my picnic and infested my lemon meringue pie!

Armed thieves descended on the helpless travelers.

Xinhua Xinhua Beijing February 4 2 Russian judicial investigators descended on the headquarters of Deutsche Bank office in Moscow.

An unfamiliar silence descended on the hubs of global commerce.

A hush has descended on the entire room; not even the babies are fussing.

More than 500 divers and snorkellers descended on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary for the 27th Underwater Music Festival.

His anger descended on the unfortunate boy.

Visitors descended on us at Christmas.

The robbers descended on the lonely house.

More than 228, 000 tourists (mostly domestic) descended on the festival grounds.

The robbers descended on us at lunch-time.

And in Chard in Somerset around 10 million ladybirds have descended on farmland and set up home.

Calm descended on the crowd.

At the mention of dollars, a sudden silence descended on the people in the cell.

The robbers descended on the village.

A darkness has descended on my castle. I am lost.

In September last year, 200 tax inspectors descended on the group's offices. No one seemed to know who sent them.

Silence descended on the room again.

But 100 people from a mix of different backgrounds have just descended on San Francisco for Science Hack Day.

our army descended on the enemy headquarters

Escape: This picture shows people swimming away from the gunman who descended on the island of Utoya