1.   We thank you, too, for this food and ask a special blessing on the one who prepared it.

2.   Food that is kosher for Passover receives a special blessing and has no leavening ingredients.

3.   One or two hoped that being there would provide a special blessing or cure an affliction.

4.   She hugged me when she left the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and I suddenly felt like I was in church and had just received a special blessing.

5.   The Mass concluded with a special blessing of holy water on the badges of the firefighters and the police officers who attended.

6.   Young asked a special blessing for the recovery of former President Gerald Ford, hospitalized a few miles away after suffering two small strokes.

7.   Pope John Paul II singled out former Christian Democrat premier Giulio Andreotti, giving him a special blessing after the ceremony.

8.   An Israeli Foreign Ministry statement in Jerusalem said Israeli President Moshe Katsav had sent a special blessing to the summit.

9.   Gray smoke from candles hung in the hot air, mingling with screaming and shouting voices, Buddhist chants and special blessings.

10.   He said he gave the Bibles a special blessing for royalty.