21.   Immigration lawyers said practices such as infanticide, genital mutilation and forced marriages often are dismissed as a cultural phenomenon.

22.   IN CINCINNATI, THE LAND OF MARGE SCHOTT Virginia Leach of Piedmont is celebrating a cultural phenomenon of the heartland, dressed-up lawn geese.

23.   In recent years, this scramble to remember, long a Jewish cultural phenomenon, has become an American cultural phenomenon.

24.   It may be a cultural phenomenon, but Floris is content to start small.

25.   Just as the bombers are becoming individually harder to identify and to stop, the broader cultural phenomenon of suicide bombing may prove difficult to restrain, experts say.

26.   Lately, the practice of wearing hats has been recognized as a cultural phenomenon and fashion industry experts say the demand for higher-priced headwear is growing.

27.   Lately, the practice of wearing hats has been recognized as a cultural phenomenon.

28.   Maxwell realized that, perhaps unlike any national gathering of any other group, the annual NAACP convention is a cultural phenomenon in every sense of the term.

29.   Midler sees two reasons why that film became a cultural phenomenon.

30.   Of course, it could be a purely cultural phenomenon.