1.   Although bank officials are seeking to limit the damage, the news will add to pressure for further cuts in borrowing costs.

2.   Officials sought to simplify the judicial process and clarify the criminal law.

3.   White House officials sought to minimize the importance of the meeting.

4.   State Department officials sought to play down the significance of the visit and insisted that the USA recognized only one state in Cyprus.

5.   The UK officials were seeking specific information concerning past Libyan contacts with the Irish Republican Army and arms shipments to the IRA.

6.   Union officials are now seeking an early meeting with Dr Kennedy to discuss its contents.

7.   Already, state officials are seeking to apply a similar plan to more than a dozen colonias owned by a group of real estate developers in Starr County.

8.   American officials have sought to avoid public discussion of the matter.

9.   American officials have sought to counter criticism that the reduction is unwise by saying that combat-ready forces could be stationed in nearby countries.

10.   American officials have long sought to determine whether the soldiers in Mogadishu were killed by militiamen with links to al-Qaida.