The Pashtun tribes in the border areas have been deeply wary of the American intrusions, these soldiers have said, and, occasionally, actively hostile.

Mr. Habib was eager to embrace the Guatemala plan, but Administration officials remain deeply wary.

Other neighboring countries are deeply wary of the Taliban.

Underneath it the eyes were deeply wary.

Turkmenistan is less likely to help, because President Niyazov is deeply wary of foreign influence.

Because China has emerged as a big trading partner, American officials are deeply wary of having that relationship disrupted.

He was deeply wary.

In a mirrored cafe on Palestine Street in Ramallah, the Palestinian men smoking water pipes, playing cards and talking politics were deeply wary.

The neatly tailored, gray-haired woman seated at the desk in the outer office eyed the fish with a deeply wary expression.

The history of the army's state-within-a-state militarism in the years between the two world wars has made the country deeply wary of completely abandoning the draft.