1.   By contrast, IBM will have little trouble winning regulatory blessings for its marriage with Lotus, antitrust lawyers and analysts say.

2.   Even with the service provision, the bill won the blessing of former lieutenant governor Bill Hobby, University of Houston president.

3.   Russak, Kaplan and the others have won blessings from Christian chaplains at the site, and their dedication has moved police officers and medical examiners to tears.

4.   So far, the encyclopedia has had no problem winning official blessing.

5.   But he has already won the blessings of Democrats who oppose such public spending on private education and of conservatives worried he might abandon the idea.

6.   Hayden has won the blessing of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.

7.   Police at first insisted that the prime minister was the victim of a conspiracy planned over two years, which had won the blessing of rabbis and religious authorities.