1.   Among the sponsors of the ad campaign is the Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative advocacy group that does research and grass-roots lobbying.

2.   As a startup in the already crowded field of conservative Christian public advocacy organizations, the Center was in search of a strategy and a focus.

3.   Bennett, who heads the conservative advocacy group Empower America, began his campaign last spring when he attacked Time Warner for its so-called gangsta rap music.

4.   Bennett is a former education secretary in the Reagan administration who now runs a conservative advocacy group called Empower America, based in Washington.

5.   Cathi Herod of the Center for Arizona Policy, a Scottsdale-based conservative advocacy group, agreed.

6.   Hatch is certain to face increasing pressure from the conservative advocacy groups who now hope he will bear down on any nominees that attract their attention as too liberal.

7.   It has also obtained the help of the Rutherford Institute, a conservative advocacy group, in a drive to change the decision on the Virginia license tags.

8.   Some Republican Senate staff aides and conservative advocacy groups have suggested privately that the Garland nomination should be blocked as a payback for Roberts.

9.   The Bush case before the court Thursday has a companion case that was brought by three Bush voters in Florida who are represented by a conservative advocacy group.

10.   The opposite reaction came from the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy organization.