1.   At the same time, law enforcement agencies branded the group as amoral and dangerous.

2.   A State Department official acknowledged the difficulty of deciding which groups should be branded as threats.

3.   Grafman took umbrage because he felt that King unfairly branded the group as racist.

4.   Ms. Harmon has been among the minority who opposed the incinerator from the start, a group sometimes branded as unpatriotic.

5.   Hezbollah, a militant group branded a terrorist organization by the State Department, has attacked Israel from southern Lebanon.

6.   In their roundup of would-be China Democracy Party members, police have indicated that the group has been branded subversive by Chinese leaders.

7.   The group has been branded subversive by Beijing.

8.   The group is branded as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.

9.   The United States brands both groups as terrorists.