11.   I tend to believe that most all miracles are tiny ones, so small that they are not seen by anyone but the one who receives the blessing.

12.   If we were not Catholic, he said, we were invited to come forward anyhow, arms crossed on our chests, to receive a blessing.

13.   It also has not yet received the blessing of the House leadership, including Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

14.   Now he received a blessing in return.

15.   Ram Dass both bestows and receives a blessing.

16.   The development concept has received the blessing of New Garden Township officials.

17.   The measure, proposed by the NCAA football rules committee but awaiting formal adoption, received the blessing of the American Football Coaches Association.

18.   Two women are called to the front of the congregation to receive a blessing from the pastor before they leave to deliver communion to those in a nursing home.

19.   Pilgrims, some of them crying, gripped the grill surrounding the tomb to receive blessings.

20.   A patient in Raiganj in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal claimed that a tumor disappeared after receiving blessings from Mother Teresa.