1.   The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving.

2.   Enola Maxwell, the Neighborhood House executive director who stood in a corner with her hands clasped, whispered a prayer of thanks.

3.   Prayers are whispered.

4.   People whispered prayers and Psalms, lighting memorial candles under death notices posted on shop shutters.

5.   So she whispers a prayer and gets back to the business of getting by.

6.   Teachers whispered prayers.

7.   Was there time to whisper a prayer for salvation or forgiveness, as was so generously afforded the death-row inmates?

8.   Christians also lobby lawmakers in Washington to support Israel, make solidarity tours to the Holy Land, run pro-Israel news services and whisper countless prayers.

9.   Each morning before she sends her children off to school, Naila Khalid holds her Koran over their heads and whispers a prayer for their safe return.

10.   Juan and Maria Melendez paused in front of the tombstone, and touched it, whispering prayers in Spanish.