11.   For example, Republican state officials might draw a suburban district so it has fewer Democrats.

12.   In recent discussions between Washington and Moscow on Chechnya, Russian officials have drawn an analogy between NATO strikes in Kosovo last spring and the Russian actions in Chechnya.

13.   In the town of Bend, east of the Cascades, officials merely drew a broad urban boundary.

14.   Iraqi officials drew no link Friday between the alleged espionage operation and the attack on Uday Hussein.

15.   Officials drew up terms of the agreement and additional contracts with the Chargers and Padres, who have advertising and sign rights at the stadium.

16.   Shellshocked officials drew up hasty plans to battle those trends.

17.   That absurdity shows that government officials somewhere must draw a line beyond which regulations are deemed too expensive, onerous and marginally effective to be worth implementing.

18.   There is a changing of the dynamics and the local officials are drawing a new line in the sand.

19.   This information would then allow law-enforcement officials to draw mathematical inferences enabling them to decipher the scrambled messages.