21.   It would also allow large corporations with the financial muscle to fend off subsequent legal challenges to maneuver around the patent even if it is later issued.

22.   ITT may have the financial muscle to buy part or all of a broadcast network.

23.   Neither the Athletics nor the Royals are pillars of financial muscle themselves.

24.   Neither was caving in to the loud wails of this or that group, or to the financial muscle of baseball advertisers who run scared of any racial issue.

25.   Only then will they be able to muster the financial muscle, resilience and know-how to meet the dictates of global competition.

26.   Struggling Asian financial institutions are selling off operations to US companies, which can use their financial muscle to enter new markets ripe for profits as economies recover.

27.   Stowers said this week that fund raising is still contemplated, but that plans for the Kansas City center now have the financial muscle to forge ahead.

28.   That should give Lotus enough financial muscle to take on Microsoft.

29.   That would be a bigger combination still, though GE has enough financial muscle to make the deal happen.

30.   The financial muscle even wrested some cultural recognition from the White House.