31.   The Republican sweep included victories in races for lieutenant governor and attorney general and continued a steady conservative shift in the state over the last few years.

32.   The Republican sweep over Congress has forced many combatants to rethink their strategy.

33.   The weeklong national convention is the first for the federation since the Republican sweep last November reduced union partisans in Congress to a small minority.

34.   With the Republican sweep of the November elections, the review process could be increasingly vulnerable to anti-abortion lobbying, abortion-rights supporters say.

35.   Chief among the isolationists elevated by the Republican sweep is Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina.

36.   Since the Republican congressional sweep last November, it has been widely anticipated that the administration would acquiesce to Republican pressure for tougher sanctions against Cuba.

37.   The Republican sweep of Congress last November did not reach the U.S. territories.

38.   But earlier the president had seemed resigned to a Republican sweep.

39.   But he also seemed resigned to a Republican sweep.

40.   Sasser, a Democrat from Tennessee, lost his seat in the Republican sweep in the November elections.