1.   For months, the spin doctors relied on the training imparted at such teaching hospitals as the Downing Street Policy Unit.

2.   It will take a masterly spin doctor to conjure upbeat images from a bleak Kansas youth.

3.   The election was won despite the spin doctors.

4.   The party spin doctors would like us to believe that the government is committed to improving the environment.

5.   The spin doctors from both sides were already declaring victory for their candidates as soon as the debate ended.

6.   The spin doctors around the lad Labour leadership have claimed that the links need to be changed.

7.   And the efforts of the spin doctors in Washington were not likely to alter the sense among Palestinians that their chief had lost the diplomatic battle.

8.   And when magic goes awry, as it sometimes does, the ministry sends out its version of spin doctors, called the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad.

9.   Anwar has honed his image overseas, through a network of Western-style spin doctors.

10.   As one storm passes, then, another seems to gather on the horizon, keeping spin doctors busy under the Golden Dome.