31.   Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., questioned whether the pardons would withstand court challenges.

32.   Still, inside and out, the house withstands the challenge spectacularly.

33.   The companies maintain that a federal law not only barring future suits but also voiding those already filed would withstand challenge.

34.   The IOC later ignored the five positive tests uncovered by the lab machines because it feared that the results could not withstand legal challenge.

35.   The Magic, despite its youth, withstood the challenge of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, then Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers.

36.   The motor voter law withstood a challenge from California Gov. Pete Wilson on Monday when a federal appeals court voted in favor of the law.

37.   The measure has withstood constitutional challenges in lower federal courts, but the Supreme Court has not said whether it will accept an appeal.

38.   The only big state that rebuffed the Republicans was Florida, where Gov. Lawton Chiles withstood a challenge from Jeb Bush.

39.   The regulations withstood a challenge by the industry in the state Supreme Judicial Court.

40.   Their goal, an honorable one, was a negotiated agreement that could withstand legal challenges and deliver at least some interim relief from windblown pollution.