1.   Staffordshire police are treating the incident as a racial attack.

2.   Thus, some policemen are urged by their tough-minded colleagues to treat Marginal incidents as criminal behaviour and are encouraged into action.

3.   Cleveland Police confirm they are treating both incidents as arson.

4.   Police said last night that they were treating the incident as attempted murder and warned all women motorists to keep doors locked when driving on their own.

5.   Assuring that a first battering incident is treated seriously under the law is more than a matter of legal equity.

6.   After several extreme right-wing groups claimed responsibility, the police said they were treating the incident as a racial attack.

7.   By treating the incident as a case of sexual harassment, the university has run into an escalating debate about free speech on the Internet.

8.   Even when the father, an inveterate womanizer, makes a pass at his oldest daughter, the movie treats the incident with minimal hysteria.

9.   For now, the police are treating the incident as isolated, an act of a disturbed individual.