1.   Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.

2.   Last August he convened a meeting of his closest advisers at Camp David.

3.   As the closest adviser to the president on domestic issues, she has no peers.

4.   At times, she is his closest adviser, in a personal sense.

5.   Basha and his closest advisers declined to return phone calls last week.

6.   A few hours earlier, a videotape broadcast on national television had shown his intelligence chief and closest adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing an opposition legislator.

7.   Although Beijing did not respond to Chen on Monday, the official state media have sharpened their criticism of his closest advisers.

8.   Bush has been careful in his public statements, not going beyond wording agreed upon with his closest advisers.

9.   But as his closest advisers were discussing how to get Quayle to give up his job voluntarily, the hapless Bush sabotaged the survival plan.

10.   But even her closest advisers have become exasperated by her failure to articulate clear policies, or to engage seriously in the construction of a credible coalition.