1.   Greater Manchester Police said that if a local health authority asked the police for assistance the force would respond.

2.   The Chinese authorities have asked for aid to help the earthquake victims.

3.   Now the health authority has asked the community and mental health unit to appoint four physiotherapists who will take patients referred directly to them by GPs.

4.   At the same time, the authority has asked a judge in state Supreme Court in Manhattan to stop the arbitration.

5.   At this stage, however, authorities have not asked the company for supplies related to any other diseases.

6.   Authorities ask doctors to examine workers.

7.   Because of statements made at the time of the stabbing, Bryan County authorities have asked the FBI to investigate the case as a hate crime.

8.   A senior European diplomat said that NATO civilian authorities had asked the military command on Thursday to intensify reconnaissance over Kosovo to try to locate the missing civilians.

9.   After a six-month investigation, authorities asked Phelan to come in for an interview earlier this month, Campbell said.

10.   But as officials noted Saturday, that clock starts when the authorities ask to interview the officer, which had not yet happened.