21.   Cigna Corp. passed the final regulatory hurdle to its plan to split its U.S. property and casualty business, winning approval from regulators in seven remaining states.

22.   Clinton has said that support from the public health community is essential to winning federal approval of a tobacco agreement.

23.   Debe worked for more than a decade before winning approval from the Internal Revenue Service for a full-scale introduction of the new securities.

24.   Developing those necessary support elements may end up taking longer for the regional Bell companies than winning regulatory long-distance approval.

25.   Dole was instrumental in winning approval for one of its environmental provisions, financing for restoration of the Everglades.

26.   Delays and concessions involved in winning regulatory approval for the merger caused part of the problem.

27.   Deutch should not have difficulty winning Senate approval because he won quick and easy Senate approval last year for his current post.

28.   Economics Ministry spokesman Stephan Koren said the proposal had a good chance of winning approval from parliament, which may take up to eight weeks to consider the plan.

29.   During his tenure, he reduced a severe backlog of cases by calling on out-of-state judges to help try Connecticut cases and by winning approval for additional full judges.

30.   Even its supporters acknowledged it had almost no chance of winning House approval.