1.   Although this ruling gives Canadian companies a legal leg to stand on, the gray market remains a stiff competitor.

2.   And the ruling giving the FCC, not the states, general authority to make the rules for local telephone competition will surely resonate in Washington.

3.   A court ruling gave her and others a place on the waiting lists for subsidized housing.

4.   A first court ruling gave Callaway a big victory, similar to the favorable decision Gore won in the Florida Supreme Court last week.

5.   Bright said the ruling gave him hope that other long-accepted applications of the death penalty might now be reconsidered.

6.   But either way, the Supreme Court ruling has now given Republicans here a case of the nerves.

7.   But last year, a labor arbitration ruling gave the Transit Authority the right to staff some trains with just one person, mostly at night.

8.   But the Florida Supreme Court ruling gave Gore sufficient confidence to start talking about his transition.

9.   Employers say the ruling will give them more leeway in firing employees as a legitimate means of cutting costs and increasing profits.

10.   For adoptive parents Angel and Stephen Welsh, the only parents Emily has known, the ruling gave them hope the case may finally be over.