1.   Other leading North Sea investors, including Shell and Esso, continued to study the changes which were announced without warning.

2.   A series of lunchtime concerts was announced without anyone really knowing whether Londoners would want to listen to Bach and Mozart under the circumstances.

3.   But Bellagio recently announced without explanation the indefinite postponement of a planned Alexander Calder exhibition and closed its gallery until January.

4.   But those reforms could have been announced without a summit of the leaders.

5.   Complicated new policy initiatives would be announced without adequate background information.

6.   Curtatone expressed anger Thursday that the indictment had been announced without informing the family or the defendant simultaneously.

7.   For a while, rumor had it that the Emmy winners might be announced without the glitz, the gowns, or even celebrity presenters.

8.   She recalled one client who announced without emotion that she had arrived for her abortion.

9.   State District Judge Bob McGrath said his sanctions were premature because they were announced without a hearing.

10.   But before dawn, Egypt announced without elaborating that the gathering was off.