1.   The topic came up in conversation.

2.   Armey said the topic did not come up at a weekly meeting of GOP leaders in the afternoon.

3.   Blake said that questions about his inexperience are irrelevant and that the topic has not come up in conversations with recruits.

4.   A soft-spoken man, Meyer sounds almost pained when the topic comes up.

5.   Again and again, the topic would come back to Martinez getting his first chance to be an October pitcher, or the unhappy flip side of that.

6.   Browning believes she may have been out of the room when the topic came up.

7.   But the topic has come up in the past, albeit in a different context.

8.   But the topic came up during a morning physiology class.

9.   But when the topic came to stopping Shaq, or at least not being mauled by Shaq, there were a lot of shrugged shoulders and quizzical looks.

10.   He bobbed and weaved a bit when asked whether the topic should have come up when his staff questioned Chavez prior to her nomination.