11.   The final week of the election campaign saw long debates over the proposals into a traditional left-right confrontation.

12.   No opinion polls are allowed to be published in the final week before an election in France.

13.   Here Hitler spent his final weeks as the Third Reich collapsed.

14.   Although the Dodgers and San Francisco pushed the Diamondbacks in the final weeks of the regular season, Arizona won the division by two games over the Giants.

15.   And for a team on the rise, like TCU, it seems a worthy place to be in the final week of December.

16.   And last season the Angels were in contention until the final weeks of the season.

17.   And some regulations imposed in the final weeks of the Clinton administration, such as the ergonomics rules, have drawn criticism.

18.   And the Clinton administration stepped up the pace in its final weeks.

19.   And while Watson struggled in the final weeks of the regular season, Turner was named MVP of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

20.   And the race has appeared to defy the conventional wisdom that runaway contests inevitably tighten in the final weeks.