21.   Still, one official portrayed the Mets as feverishly trying to make moves.

22.   The week before last, Canadian officials portrayed her as emotionally fragile and unstable.

23.   They are not, as some U.S. officials have portrayed them, mere bumps in the road.

24.   Town officials have portrayed the beating as an accident waiting to happen.

25.   U.S. officials have portrayed the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, as something of a showoff who repeatedly flew dangerously close to American reconnaissance planes.

26.   While alliance officials portray the general as a unifying force, many ethnic Pashtuns in southern Afghanistan despised Massoud, who was an ethnic Tajik.

27.   White House officials portrayed the findings as vindication.

28.   White House officials portray her statement as a personal opinion at odds with U.S. policy, which calls for Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate their own arrangements.

29.   White House officials portray the transfer as a simple accounting shift.

30.   Other party officials portrayed the decision to have Schyman stay at the helm as the same sort of standing up for the hard-pressed.