1.   His talk about not wanting her had been nonsense, stuff handed out by a man salvaging a bruised ego.

2.   He upheld the death sentences handed down by lower courts.

3.   And the sentence meted out by this jury would be no less binding than the punishment handed down by a black-robed grownup.

4.   Area television stations said they follow guidelines governing political ads handed down by the Federal Communications Commission.

5.   Blancornelas was struck in the trunk and hand by three bullets and underwent surgery Thursday afternoon, Ortiz said in a telephone interview from Tijuana.

6.   A statement handed out by the U.S. Embassy here contained specific targets for Japanese parts procurement.

7.   But as historian Thomas Bailey points out, all presidential ratings, including those handed down by supposedly objective academicians, are biased in one way or another.

8.   Cubans have gobbled up tens of thousands of posters, placards, flags and other paraphernelia handed out by the Catholic church.

9.   Employees who lose their jobs in the Wells Fargo-First Interstate merger will receive some of the most generous parting favors ever handed out by American business.