11.   Beck had initially requested a leave under the federal Family Medical Leave Act that would have extended through April.

12.   A recent blockade of the Renault plant by striking workers that extended through March and into April severely disrupted the ability of the company to deliver vehicles.

13.   A pattern of not voting adopted in youth could easily extend through a lifetime, further depressing an overall turnout that is already disturbingly low.

14.   After a string of court victories that extended through three decades, the NCAA is on a losing streak.

15.   After the Clinton administration approved the cleanup plan in December, it entered a public comment period that extended through the early months of the Bush administration.

16.   But Clinton would insist that the old caps be replaced with new, higher limits that would be extended through the rest of the decade, they said.

17.   But that same year an oceanic cable was extended through Midway.

18.   But the police remained wary as the curfew was extended through the weekend.

19.   By tradition, Americans throw their diets right out the window on Thanksgiving Day, the starting line in a marathon of overeating that extends through the New Year.

20.   Depending on how the court decides a series of cases extending through the remainder of its current term and into the next, that border could be redrawn.