1.   They cited internal government guidelines against talking to reporters without prior approval of agency public affairs officers.

2.   A well-dressed young man reading The Asian Wall Street Journal waved away a reporter without lifting his eyes from the paper.

3.   Afterward, Fox was in no mood to offer insight, walking past a reporter without speaking, while teammate John Salley ran interference.

4.   He was the last player out of the locker room and brushed by reporters without saying a word.

5.   Linda Tripp has fired one of her attorneys for speaking to reporters without her permission.

6.   Oil ministers from Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait and Nigeria, the only nations to send top-level delegates, walked past reporters without discussing the plan.

7.   Sager maintained that the protective order would leave reporters without a source of verifiable information -- court documents.

8.   The corrections agency placed special conditions on the parole of inmate Leslie White, forbidding him to write or speak to reporters without a permit.

9.   This sophisticated woman, who presents herself with the gentility befitting her Southern roots, said this to a roomful of reporters without a dram of mirth or humor.