1.   A year earlier, church officials had settled a lawsuit that accused Shanley of sexual abuse.

2.   After discussing the appropriate site for a tribute, Colonial officials settled on a shady corner of the practice tee near the fourth green and fifth tee.

3.   But former department advocates, who bring administrative cases against officers, said department officials settle or drop cases without any administrative hearing.

4.   But state officials had just settled numerous violations with the company.

5.   City officials settled on SCESCAPE, a two- person graphics and computer operation headquartered in a second-story apartment in downtown Aiken.

6.   City and state officials must settle two questions.

7.   City officials eventually settled on Army Street, a major east-west thoroughfare running from the waterfront through Noe Valley.

8.   Corrections experts say the record is extraordinary, since prisoners rarely win such cases and officials rarely settle them.

9.   Facing long odds, Firestone officials would settle for a safe and respectable showing this month.

10.   John Berley, the assistant village manager, said officials settled the case to avoid the cost of continuing legal proceedings and the risk of losing at trial.