Officials claim that the act would actually decrease military power.

The officials, though, claimed that was the moment Carter took it out of his hands.

More recently, these same officials claimed that the government lacks the money to do anything at all.

In recent years hundreds of them have set up laboratories here, and Chinese officials claim the number is growing by 200 a year.

Officials claimed that large numbers of weapons had been found in various towns.

One official claimed that the plant was converted in 1990.

Special provisions and market forces allow officials to claim every deal as an exception.

Density builds during the morning, though, and officials later claim a 95,000 crowd.

Initially, officials claimed at various times to have lost or misplaced the information.

Officials from the fire department claimed that the whole building could easily have been "blown apart".