1.   Democrats and Republicans, lawmakers and White House officials put aside vitriol and accusatory rhetoric and stood together in a rare exhibition of unity.

2.   Democrats and Republicans, lawmakers and White House officials put aside vitriol and accusatory rhetoric and stood together last Tuesday in a rare show of unity.

3.   Like many others here, Grooms is angry about how the support program ended in a whirl of political maneuvering and accusatory rhetoric about government waste.

4.   Sunday, Trimble assigned the term an accepted spot in the accusatory rhetoric of Northern Ireland politics.