11.   The earnings picture also remains favorable.

12.   The larger picture remains grim for the Kurds.

13.   The NFL picture here remains as hazy as the smog hanging over the only U.S. city to lose two professional football teams in the same year.

14.   The picture remains for five seconds, then the screen dissolves into a three-minute slide show of images from famous to everyday moments in this century.

15.   The pictures remained on the site in Sweden.

16.   The pictures remain, however, no less reliable than memory.

17.   Though the coming weeks may yet bring another tumble, they said they still believed that the advertising picture remained positive.

18.   While the trade deficit and import figures are lower than estimated, the big picture for trade remains about the same.

19.   Analysts said the big picture remains relatively positive.

20.   But the longer-term picture remains uncertain.