1.   But in the waning hours Saturday night, Cox came up big.

2.   And Clinton chastised congressional leaders for shooting down health care, education and gun control bills in the waning hours of Congress.

3.   And other presidents, notably George Bush, handed out controversial pardons in the waning hours of their administrations.

4.   A scholar and activist, Edelin piped up with the idea in the waning hours of a black leadership meeting Jackson convened in Chicago more than a decade ago.

5.   But even in the waning hours before voting was scheduled to begin this morning, supporters and foes of the bill bickered over what both sides deemed legislative minutiae.

6.   But the engineers here had more immediate concerns in the waning hours of a day that had begun with death.

7.   Her bill won approval in the Assembly, but bogged down in the Senate, where it died in the waning hours of the legislative session.

8.   His telephone calls to Belfast in the waning hours of the negotiating deadline last year were crucial.

9.   It begins in the waning hours of slavery and continues to this very day.