1.   The contracts are the first under a new law the company says permits the practice, an interpretation Blumenthal says is wrong.

2.   In the UK this practice is only permitted in relation to a Recommended offer.

3.   All American League teams permit the practice, as do the four teams in the National League West, where the Diamondbacks will play.

4.   Drugmakers had sued in South African courts to block a law permitting the practice.

5.   During the years when the Federal Communications Commission was effectively the sole regulator of radio mergers, the FCC permitted that practice while agency approval was pending.

6.   Mayors and governors who permit this practice will have themselves to blame when the damage suits reach into the billions and the racial climate is irreparably poisoned.

7.   The culture that permitted such practices has clearly shifted in Germany, as elsewhere in Europe.

8.   The state Supreme Court, however, said state law had to give way to federal securities law, which permits the practice.

9.   The rules of the judicial panel supervising multidistrict litigation explicitly permit that practice, the law firm says.

10.   Although the party grudgingly permits religious practice, church leaders are strictly controlled.