11.   But, that favorite status was conferred largely by default after Old Trieste was stricken by a fever earlier in the week and subsequently withdrawn.

12.   Faced with an outcry from conservative Republicans, Bush has ruled out a blanket amnesty that would confer legal status on undocumented workers.

13.   Humanism confers godlike status on human beings.

14.   It means a loss of personal touch, confers second-class status on rotary-dial customers and generally irritates people.

15.   It carries with it no land and does not confer noble status.

16.   Ivelisse Reyes once thought designer labels conferred instant status.

17.   Moreover, the American Radiator Building was a designated landmark, which by definition confers status.

18.   Once, the big stores were the perfect middlemen, guiding the American woman to the proper designer and conferring status on the brands they selected to showcase.

19.   Some people drink bottled water because they think it tastes better, others because they think it confers special status.

20.   Some clinicians have concluded that all sorts of mental and physical problems confer outsider status, and that feeling outside the mainstream can help motivate people to become artists.