21.   The term also applies to a stand for flowers or plants or an urn.

22.   The terms apply more to the family of trees, rather than its hardness or softness.

23.   The term applies to the pattern of change in which two unrelated species independently evolve similar traits adapted to similar ecological and environmental conditions.

24.   This term could apply to those who will end up winning a contest that started Friday at Vegas.com, a tourist site for those bound to Sin City.

25.   This term also applies to a plant gradually exposed to warm conditions or sun.

26.   Those terms apply only to those executives who have not already become targets of the prosecution, as Michael Andreas and others have.

27.   Traditionally, Hispanic media networks have been considered part of a niche market as opposed to the mainstream or general market, but such terms may no longer apply.

28.   To further muddy things, the encyclopedia says the term first applied to New Orleans.

29.   Would a longer term apply only to the mayor?

30.   However, we do not share the view of those who criticize the requirement as ethnic profiling, a term increasingly applied in ways that make no sense whatsoever.