1.   An armed group of people who said they were associated with the militia movement confronted officials in Hamilton, Mont., last month.

2.   At the White House, press secretary Mike McCurry said the United States will confront Chinese officials on the issue.

3.   Crane confronted military officials, he said, and managed to take photos of army personnel who said they were holding the bones to conduct their own forensic investigation.

4.   Most of these new discoveries came only after Iraqi officials were confronted with information from defectors or supplier countries.

5.   Such distinctions are likely to be of small comfort, however, if UAW officials are again confronted with a picket line at their office door.

6.   The changes raise many of the same questions now confronting state officials as the nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance companies move to become for-profit companies.

7.   With new allies among the recent immigrants and neighboring parishes, they confronted city officials as one.

8.   Players tried to keep the crewcut coach away but he tore past them to confront officials Curtis Shaw, Frank Basone and Lonnie Dixon.

9.   A lack of translators and communications breakdowns between the numerous sites are among other difficulties confronting officials.

10.   After confronting museum officials about the empty display box, the embarrassed officials told him they had been keeping the thefts a secret for five years.