1.   City officials chose not to join other law enforcement agencies seeking a renewal of the exemption.

2.   Amid enticing competition from Los Angeles and Indianapolis, USA Triathlon officials chose Las Colinas to host its first trials.

3.   And, faced with a choice between collapse, and holding elections while Karadzic and Mladic still exercised control, the officials chose the later.

4.   And without a promise that that prohibition would be undone after it pled guilty, Andersen officials chose to have their day in court.

5.   A focal point will be whether Japanese officials chose to defend their trade excess.

6.   But the results were not legally binding, and CPMC officials chose not to accept them.

7.   Catsimatidis said HRA officials chose not to act.

8.   District spokesman Eric Nasarenko said if officials choose to go with individual contractors again, they would avoid some of the mistakes that happened last time.

9.   During the Afghan war, Pakistani officials chose to look the other way while the U.S. funneled weapons to the Afghan rebels fighting the Soviets.