31.   He refused, facing down the board in an expensive legal battle until the town dropped its suit.

32.   Her suit was eventually dropped.

33.   In exchange, American lawyers agreed to drop suits against the banks.

34.   In exchange for the apologies, the National Party dropped the suit.

35.   In return, Digital would drop its suit while retaining the intellectual property rights to the Alpha.

36.   In signing the agreement, city officials said they are not dropping their suit against other gun manufactuers named in the suit.

37.   Industry representatives said Friday that they talked to Symington and his staff to try to convince them that the state should drop the suit.

38.   It dropped that suit after he did testify.

39.   Its investors, meanwhile, were clearly elated by the settlement and the agreement that GM would drop its suit.

40.   Just when young people are being suited with school uniforms, Wall Street suits are, it seems, thinking of dropping their suits.