1.   Although he said that Ethiopia had no designs on Eritrean land, Eritrean officials cast the fighting as an outright invasion.

2.   Authorities said that they were later released, but opposition officials cast doubt on that, saying that many had not returned to their homes.

3.   Administration officials has cast the issue in terms of granting the same treatment to Haitian refugees.

4.   Even the elected officials cast the company as the villain of the piece.

5.   Facing an investigation with many facts, but many more unanswered questions, law enforcement officials are casting for leads beyond the letters themselves.

6.   His operations in Afghanistan were the targets of a U.S. cruise-missile attack, following the embassy attacks, that U.S. officials cast as a pre-emptive raid.

7.   More than two months later, some U.S. intelligence officials are casting doubt on the initial assessment that the South deliberately limited the test to avoid U.S. suspicions.

8.   NEA officials cast the agency as a non-elitist institution committed to fostering the greatest exposure of art to the widest number of people.

9.   Now, as U.S. officials cast a fresh eye on the continent, they are hoping to drum up public support by looking for good stories to tell.

10.   Peacekeeping officials here are casting the dispute in a much broader context that has implications for cooperation in future operations.