1.   Among four freshmen Democratic senators who campaigned last fall on a pledge to support a balanced budget amendment, Torricelli had been the lone holdout in announcing his decision.

2.   Boxing, while gaining acceptance in the U.S., remains verboten in many countries and could be the lone holdout.

3.   A lone holdout could deep-six an effort to create a unit to share the cost of work needed to increase production from older fields.

4.   Even the conservative government of Edouard Balladur does not want France to be the lone holdout among nuclear powers.

5.   Ms. Reasonover, who is black, said she understands that the lone holdout against the death sentence was a white woman.

6.   Northwest Airlines is the lone holdout.

7.   On the Delaware Supreme Court, Justice Joseph T. Walsh is the lone holdout on a bench where the four other justices have been putting their citations in footnotes.

8.   She was the lone holdout in the verdict.

9.   That means Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Gary Stern reversed his position that made him the lone holdout for a rate increase at FOMC meetings in August and September.

10.   The lone holdout is Northwest, which offers service to other Asian cities from its hubs in Tokyo and Osaka.