1.   Analysts expect a wave of mergers and failures as weaker banks topple under their bad debt and stronger banks resist government pressure to support them.

2.   Analysts also expect a wave of mergers.

3.   After confirming it on Monday, the White House can expect a wave of criticism from opponents near the level it received before the China trip.

4.   After the attack, she says, everyone expected another wave.

5.   But no one had truly expected the wave after wave of marchers that sang joyfully down Washington and Main Streets on Monday on the way to the statehouse.

6.   But Villegas expects a wave of new Japanese investment, triggered by the relentless rise of the yen.

7.   Few expect a wave of deal failures, or that financing will dry up.

8.   Flanagan expects a wave of job cuts.

9.   If not, Gibbs can expect another wave a criticism.

10.   Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said he expected a wave of White House initiatives.