Legal and financial advisers counselled Murren, as he puts it, to 'cut off the arm to save the patient'.

She spoke of some of those investments now, in particular some of her land investments in Texas, which her American advisers were counselling her to sell.

However, Roosevelt's advisers, including Henry Morgenthau Jr., counseled against the credibility of the report.

Mr. Netanyahu's advisers have reportedly counseled him to steer clear of attacks on Mr. Shahak.

Some top advisers had counseled that moving forward quickly was imperative to counter an impression that the Administration was floundering without clear direction or priorities.

Many advisers and seers counseled the then King to allow Reacher's older sister Katya to reign rather than her diminutive brother.

"Don't be anxious," the postwar advisers counseled, a suspicious message if ever there were one.

The President's military and Intelligence advisers counseled against getting the United States mired in a long and bloody African conflict.

But his closest advisers counseled in a chorus that Mr. Aspin should go, now.

The President's advisers are counselling him to avoid getting into a conflict at this moment.