Some post-independence local officials trace their roots to past rulers, called raja, of Adonara (proper).

Financial company executives, many of whom had lost friends at the World Trade Center, were eager to help federal officials trace terrorist money.

Western officials traced the problem to difficulties with credit card payments.

Some officials and health care experts here trace the program's current financial travails to two miscalculations early on.

Panamanian officials traced the toothpaste to a local company in the Colón Free Trade Zone.

After narrowing the search down to cheese, the officials traced the production sources for cheese products.

Nearly two months later, Pakistani officials traced him to the port city of Karachi and then here.

But Western officials, as well as many Russians, trace the crackdown to politics.

But when the postal officials there could not trace any such addressee in Exeter No. 1, the tempo quickened to a polka.

Medical officials traced every sick person, and people who came into their presence while they exhibited symptoms, quarantining more than 7,000 people for 10 days at home.