Congress and the White House argued late into tonight on the year's long-overdue spending bills but remained deadlocked over billions of dollars and crucial paragraphs of legislative language.

Had a crucial paragraph escaped in her haste and fatigue?

But when the conference ended, that language had been revived as the first sentence of a crucial paragraph on safe abortion.

Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word.

Many of those exercises dealt with writing a lead, the crucial first paragraph of a news article, and that is where this chapter on newswriting starts as well.

The crucial paragraph of this memo reads:

One last word about recital 8, because I know that that is a crucial paragraph to many Members.

A crucial paragraph dealt with the Holocaust.

After trading telephone calls over the weekend, they drafted three crucial paragraphs.

One technique is to underline and indent a crucial paragraph, coaxing the cautious eye to linger a second longer.