1.   The recommendation was a surprise because census officials previously have portrayed adjustment as a solution to chronic undercounts.

2.   Although the mayor and Lincoln Center officials portrayed the commitment as firm, they were still working on a plan that would insulate the grant from yearly budget battles.

3.   At the news session, the two officials portrayed the Serbs as the main obstacle to an agreement.

4.   Administration officials portrayed the latest anti-crime initiative as part of a broad campaign to combat youth violence.

5.   But American officials portrayed the meetings themselves as progress of a sort, the necessary preliminaries to fruitful negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.

6.   But administration officials portrayed the reversal as a fresh start that indicated their willingness to work with industry and privacy groups to build a consensus.

7.   Cigarette industry officials have portrayed that case as an aberration, pointing to a number of recent legal victories.

8.   Daiwa officials on Tuesday portrayed themselves as dupes of a sophisticated trader.

9.   For example, NATO has repeatedly struck a plant in Cacak that Yugoslav officials portrayed as an appliance factory.

10.   Government officials portray themselves as the good guys in white turbans, and they are quick to suspect that not all donations to the aid groups are properly spent.