Britain's 2,000 or so independent bookstores (about 1,000 other stores belong to chains) have reacted with fear and in, some cases, plucky promotions.

Then the chain store officials arrive and the swindler states that the store now belong to him.

The store belongs to the wizard played by Ronnie James Dio, who seems to have some secret involvement in the matter of their trouble.

This store does not belong to you.

The case concerns the garage, laundry and four stores belonging to a 420-unit co-op at 5 West 14th Street.

However, by the late 1990s, Benjamin's former stores would no longer belonged to Benjamin's children.

To you will not even belong the vast stores of real gold that lie in the vault beneath me.

But on weekday evenings, the store belongs to Harlem families and Westchester commuters.

Until 1990, the store belonged to Liverpool's now-defunct Lewis's retail group.

Another resident, Pat Bergerson, said the stores did not belong in a family community.