1.   Energy Biosystems may have crossed that hurdle.

2.   Even if that hurdle could be crossed, the Democratic-controlled state Assembly is not likely to agree to scrap the program.

3.   He needs to cross two hurdles.

4.   Once he crossed that hurdle, in South Carolina, the next round swung solidly his way and the rest became afterthought.

5.   Another hurdle was crossed at Halloween, when Soeuth revealed a taste for the macabre.