11.   It was taken as a backhanded compliment at the time, but Valentine was right.

12.   Most diseases pick on stressed plants, but powdery mildew attacks the healthiest, so take it as a backhanded compliment.

13.   Perhaps, finally, the Netherlands will shed itself of the backhanded compliment of being the best team never to win a world championship.

14.   Ridge said such backhanded compliments were off the mark, as were the growing complaints from Congress.

15.   Taylor also offered the Giants, who need a victory over Jacksonville on Saturday to clinch home field throughout the playoffs, a backhanded compliment.

16.   That sounded like a backhanded compliment, but Gardner will take it.

17.   The Kemp selection drew a backhanded compliment from Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, the head of the Clinton-Gore effort in Texas.

18.   This is no backhanded compliment.

19.   A backhanded compliment?

20.   In a backhanded compliment, unreleased material from those sessions has surfaced on bootlegs.