1.   The Spanish authorities conducted a nationwide search for the girl.

2.   Apparently overwhelmed by the number of bodies, the authorities here have conducted only cursory autopsies before reburying the dead in mass graves.

3.   As I am writing this, news agencies report that the Turkish authorities are conducting a major offensive against Kurdish rebels.

4.   Ashcroft said authorities were conducting interviews and reviewing airline manifests, rental car records, pay phone records and the videotapes of airport parking lots.

5.   Authorities have conducted several campaigns to disarm the militias in the past, collecting hundreds of weapons.

6.   Authorities quickly conducted an autopsy, which prosecutors had sought as part of a criminal investigation.

7.   Authorities conduct house-to-house raids and mass arrests of any group of men that assembles in public.

8.   But del Ponte insisted that she could not wait for years while Yugoslav authorities conducted their prosecution.

9.   But they say they do know that Yemeni authorities conducted searches of at least eight safe houses and other locations before allowing the FBI to inspect them.

10.   During the afternoon, postal authorities were conducting a series of meetings for employees who worked in the repair center.