While most teams allow club officials to discuss a player's condition, many teams also routinely withhold sensitive information and provide vague or deceiving details.

(Health officials routinely withhold the names of those under investigation.)

The C.I.A. is so troubled by the department's record that it routinely withholds classified information, diplomats and lawmakers said.

But how can a consensus be reached if the Police Department, responding to orders from above, routinely withholds information from the state comptroller and the public advocate as well as from the press and public?

And while Mr. Kalamanov insists he is making progress, he is the first to acknowledge that the Russian military routinely withholds critical details of investigations.

Studios routinely withhold films from theaters if they appear unlikely to justify the costs of advertising and distribution.

Sometimes even next of kin do not want to see them and the police routinely withhold them from the press in deference to feelings of privacy, decency or perhaps deep unnamed and atavistic taboos.

However, team officials routinely withhold medical information about players.

B1 Giuliani Defends Openness Mayor Giuliani defended his administration against complaints that city officials routinely withhold information about the workings of city government from the public.

Doctors still routinely withhold information about serious illnesses, lest they shock the their patients.