1.   And I will thank him and ask that his blessings be bestowed upon you for the wonderful gift you sent me.

2.   And last month Imelda Marcos, whose vast shoe holdings once epitomized state greed, bestowed her blessing on a new footwear museum in the Philippines.

3.   He nods at each grim face as if bestowing a blessing.

4.   In statewide elections, those blessings are usually bestowed on Democrats.

5.   Just such a blessing has been bestowed upon the Warm Springs Canyon truck trail north of Castaic in the Angeles National Forest.

6.   The company would be better off bestowing its blessing and letting you use a conference room for your meetings.

7.   Thus inspired, recording executives and agents in Los Angeles, Nashville and New York have bestowed their blessings and cash on what they call the Emilio Project.

8.   Until we meet again under a different format, I pray that God will bestow his blessings on each of you.

9.   Yeltsin did bestow the blessings of capitalism, which has created a new Russian middle class.

10.   The aging pontiff bestowed his blessing on the newest princes of the church, resplendent in crimson cassocks, capes and socks and spanking-white lace surplices.