1.  He had wanted the Agency to specialize in political cases.

2.  And the case before the court on Monday is perhaps the most highly charged political case to come before it in modern times.

3.  As in most delicate political cases, the verdict and sentence Wednesday were preordained by Communist Party leaders.

4.  But it is a political case, so Congress is dithering and the White House vacillates between indifference and antagonism.

5.  But they may also weaken the political case for presidential continuity.

6.  But with employers complaining about a shortage of workers, the political case for abolishing the earnings limit became overwhelming.

7.  Cai said Wang was entitled to appeal, and the family said it would initiate an appeal, but such appeals in political cases are routinely rejected.

8.  Freeh supports turning over the entire campaign finance inquiry to an independent prosecutor as the most credible approach to a highly political case involving administration officials.

9.  In the two years since NAFTA went into effect, however, the administration has had a hard time proving its political case.

10.  It became a hugely political case.