31.   The new group would forward all appeals to the Court of Arbitration in Sport, a nonpartisan global panel that has the blessing of the International Olympic Committee.

32.   The plan has the blessing of general manager Doug Melvin.

33.   The rolling parties have the blessing of the local authorities, who trot on horseback next to cars that practically rattle with empty beer cans and liquor bottles.

34.   The XFL sure has my blessing.

35.   They said that the Citigroup deal looked as though it already had the blessing of regulators.

36.   This, despite the fact that he had the blessing of his political patron, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

37.   To receive his gaze was to have his blessing.

38.   You have the blessing of precedent, and it happened in your hometown.

39.   Puello said in San Juan on Tuesday that the winter leagues in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela have the blessing of major league baseball.

40.   A source claimed the grant of the Tin Shui Wai contract to Cheung Kong had the blessings of the pre-Special Administrative Region government.