1.   Amnesty says politely that the authorities have not answered serious questions about their failure to protect civilians at the time.

2.   Federal authorities were not answering such questions Friday.

3.   The authorities answered with details about five, each of whose sentence had been reduced.

4.   The authority also answers to three trustees who are appointed by the New York City schools chancellor, the mayor and the governor.

5.   Chinese authorities have answered by detaining about three dozen activists in recent weeks.

6.   Mrs. Kidd called police, but hung up before authorities could answer.

7.   On Tuesday, Homsi began a hunger strike after authorities did not answer his calls to end martial law and tighten controls on Syrian security services.

8.   She hung up before authorities could answer.

9.   The women have threatened to travel on to Srebrenica and search for graves themselves if their questions are not answered by authorities in Sarajevo.

10.   Until Wednesday, authorities had answered repeated inquiries by saying they knew nothing of his case, leading to fears that Shao had disappeared.