11.   Both companies claimed victory in the early phase of what is expected to be a lengthy series of court battles over the unsolicited purchase offer.

12.   A. Typically, you see utilities doing better in the early phases of recovery, then telecommunications and then manufacturing.

13.   Bush showed he understood that in the early phases of the war against terrorism.

14.   But in the all-black variety, it shuts down during the early phase, preventing the production of yellow pigment.

15.   But other officials said that the investigation was still at an early phase and that they could not rule out anything yet.

16.   Capitalist development may be compatible, in its early phases, with authoritarian rule.

17.   Celera counters that its genome will have fewer errors than the HGP genome during this early phase of development.

18.   Early phases of this project could start sending some water in as little as two years, said Zhang Guangdou, a former deputy president of Qinghua University.

19.   During an early phase of the discovery process, he said, Time delivered several prints of photographs Eisenstaedt took before and after the famous kiss.

20.   During the early phases of tropical storm development, the telltale swirl of winds is usually hidden from conventional satellites by a thick cloak of rain and clouds.