1.   Amiri said that for reasons of national security, he could not describe the nature of the information that Tefileen is supposed to have turned over.

2.   A spokesman for the office would not describe the nature of the charges or the name of her lawyer.

3.   But the reason behind the move was unclear, and Katsanos, citing a concern for privacy, said he could not describe the nature of the accusations.

4.   Hawker declined to describe the nature of the evidence or say whether the bodies of the girls, who were reported missing late Friday, had been found.

5.   He declined to identify the officials or describe the nature of the discussions.

6.   In an interview, Molloy declined to describe the nature of any new charges.

7.   Ms. Laird refused to describe the nature of the information presented to the investigators or the specifics of what its involvement in an amnesty program would entail.

8.   She said that Louima had first described the nature of his injury to a nurse in the operating room.

9.   The first blow came when scientists like Kurt Goedel proved that mathematical systems are always incomplete and cannot be relied on to describe nature.

10.   The State Department did not describe the nature of the threat.