Instead, officials carefully refer to the base here as a "forward deployment."

Despite such arguments, elected officials routinely refer to spending to keep sports teams as an important form of economic development.

Which meant that a federal official was referring questions about a citizenship celebration to people who work for a mall.

The officials shrugged and referred him to someone else.

Local officials refer to those new communities as "neighborhoods."

After the election, the number of American troops is expected to be brought back to about 138,000, which military officials refer to as the baseline contingent.

Spanish officials have referred to such an alliance, too.

American and Philippine officials referred to it as nothing more than a collection of bandits.

Its officials have either declined to comment or referred questions to the civil liberties union.

Egyptian officials refer to the group as New Jihad, but it has many leaders who were involved in the old organization.