1.   Senior bureaucrats, it is true, are sometimes members of the dominant class, and sympathise with its aims.

2.   A few senior bureaucrats, pharmaceutical-company officials and a leading AIDS expert have been arrested in connection with the scandal.

3.   Enthusiasm for the law wanes, however, in the strata below these senior bureaucrats.

4.   Flanked by two aides, Ujiie sat at a table facing the senior bureaucrats.

5.   However, a senior bureaucrat at the Bank of Japan said that imposing stricter inspections is dangerous.

6.   Senior bureaucrats, even at such a vaunted institution as the Bank of Japan, were discovered to be on the take.

7.   Somewhat less dramatic was the reaction of a senior bureaucrat at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

8.   The guilty included several former senior bureaucrats from the Labor Ministry.

9.   The result was a near revolt by senior bureaucrats.

10.   Only the staff of the Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and a few senior bureaucrats reported to work.