1.   The measure, considered a long-shot bid, failed when the Communists could not muster enough votes to pass it.

2.   Although Clinton was impeached by the House for lying about his affair in sworn testimony, the Senate could not muster the votes to remove him from office.

3.   An effort to begin talks on a compromise faltered last week when the Republican leadership in the House could not muster the votes to get past a procedural hurdle.

4.   Backers now are trying to muster the votes to override the veto.

5.   Before now, a highly factionalized board had trouble mustering enough votes to take on the mayor.

6.   A divided Federal Communications Commission failed to muster enough votes to approve a commission inquiry into liquor advertising on U.S. television and radio stations.

7.   After Clinton vetoed the first version, and House Republicans failed to muster enough votes for an override.

8.   Advocates of campaign finance reform easily mustered the votes Wednesday to defeat a House Republican bill they said would undermine disclosure laws governing independent political groups.

9.   After years in which dissident shareholders could not muster many votes, their proposals are now drawing substantial support.

10.   But he may be capable of mustering enough votes in the presidential primaries to exert a powerful leftward influence on Democrat policies.