91.   Republicans, however, branded the attacks as pure partisan politics.

92.   Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov lambasted the bombing attacks as an American attempt to bully the world.

93.   Skeptics have dismissed warnings of hacker attacks as alarmist, cynics have figured that attacks were inevitable, and victims have often preferred to not talk about it.

94.   Some Muslim clerics denounced the attacks as an assault on Islam.

95.   Some observers see the attack as evidence that a simmering confrontation between the Saudi ruling establishment and growing ranks of Islamic militants has been taken to a new level.

96.   Some officials see the attacks as a kind of saber rattling intended to persuade him to take the deal being offered.

97.   Some companies that had already entered into agreements not yet completed could use the terrorist attacks as a reason to abort deals that no longer seem as attractive.

98.   Some observers denounce the attacks as mean-spirited, even sexist.

99.   Speaking on the condition of anonymity, advisers to Clinton expressed amazement over the prospective impeachment vote and Republican criticism of the attack as politically motivated.

100.   Spitzer has shrugged off the attacks as absurd.