1.   Although such a ruling would be accepted as routine in many other democratic countries, it set off a storm of protest in Germany.

2.   And she agrees that Clark has much to lose if she were to make such a ruling.

3.   Before Bush vs. Gore, I would have considered such a ruling an impossibility.

4.   Both say they need more information to make such a ruling.

5.   A British Bridge League panel later found there was insufficient evidence to sustain such a ruling, but the world association prevailed.

6.   A lawsuit by smokers in Pennsylvania against the biggest U.S. cigarette companies was denied class-action status, the second such ruling in recent weeks.

7.   But attorneys for the companies suing ADM contend in their motion to Manning, filed today, that such a ruling might harm their clients.

8.   But the European Union has said it believes that the McDonnell Douglas-Boeing deal may be anti-competitive, although it has yet to make such a ruling.

9.   But, faced with anxious prosecutors, federal district judges across the country have been forced to confront the consequences of such a ruling.

10.   For the gastronomically inclined, who dispute the health risk claim, such a ruling would be the equivalent of the apocalypse.