11.   Five justices bought the argument, upholding the law in a decision that removed any claim homosexuals had to privacy or to protection from government intrusion in their bedrooms.

12.   Few other nations have bought the argument that such explosions are really necessary, as China had insisted.

13.   Few seemed to buy the argument that a process characterized by rank partisanship was truly driven by conscience.

14.   For the most part Wall Street has bought the argument.

15.   Geoff Smith, a vice president at the insurer ITT Hartford, said he did not buy that argument.

16.   Heyer said that many in the advertising community buy his argument.

17.   If the court buys that argument, it will merely put off a decision on the underlying question of the constitutionality of the veto power.

18.   In the third quarter, investors finally bought the argument.

19.   Investors appear to buy the argument.

20.   Judges Ehrlich and Thompson did not buy such arguments.