11.   A week later, months after the scheduled delivery date, they made it official and unanimously performed a partial-birth abortion on this misshapen deal.

12.   Brett Hull all but made it official.

13.   Breaking eight decades of resistance to greater public disclosure, the Fed made it official Thursday evening that it would continue to announce changes in interest rates.

14.   But a spokeswoman for Barnes defended the appointment, which will be made official when the new board meets in Atlanta on Thursday.

15.   But Harper consistently played more minutes, and the writing was on the wall way before Harris made it official.

16.   But he said state courts should have seen the parade as political expression before the protest was made official.

17.   But if Republicans are so sure that Social Security is safe, Reid asked, why not make it official?

18.   But somehow the agreement was never made official.

19.   But that statement essentially made it official.

20.   Coach Rich Kotite made it official.