1.   Could the potential candidate really treat a New Yorker who still plays racial politics like a power broker, and ask his blessing?

2.   She nearly died of humiliation before asking both blessings simultaneously.

3.   They will ask its blessing.

4.   Doomed AIDS patients in Cuba asked his blessing.

5.   Many came to confess, to ask his blessing or merely to kiss his hand or touch his head.

6.   Now he offered another prayer, asking blessings for the city of Washington and the District of Columbia, the new seat of the federal government.