1.   And in rare cases, though apparently not including his, the offending officials have been prosecuted.

2.   Dole is skipping the contest to avoid offending New Hampshire officials, who wanted Delaware to wait at least a week after the New Hampshire primary.

3.   Producers, directors and distributors are predictably reluctant to comment on why their films were not selected, for fear of offending festival officials.

4.   The report also condemns what is sees as a general failure to punish offending officials.

5.   He did not elaborate or name the offending officials.

6.   The new charges were made under a new law which provides for prosecution of journalists who overstep a hazy borderline in offending top state officials.

7.   Under Romanian criminal law, an offense against state authority, which means offending top state officials, can entail sentences of up to three years in prison.

8.   Under Croatian law, journalists can be punished for offending top state officials.

9.   Visut Samretvanich, chairman of the municipal council, said the offending officials would be instructed in how to behave in public.

10.   But a union official said that one of the measures could be the expulsion of the offending official from the union fold.