In the fall of 1988, for instance, analysts circulated reports saying that Caterpillar would enjoy double-digit increases in earnings per share in 1989.

Another town official, prominently quoted in several globally circulated reports, took umbrage at being accosted casually in the street.

To see a candle wasting in a draught, enemies are circulating detrimental reports about you.

Before the new legislature had met, Morton began circulating reports that they intended to secede from the Union, instigate riots, and were harboring southern spies.

Bad guys on the ground do everything possible to stop him, including circulating reports that Jack is a terrorist who plans to nuke his home planet.

Intelligence officers from the D.I.A. interviewed the defector twice in early 2002 and circulated reports based on those debriefings.

As the Miami media and bloggers circulated reports of the staggering fiscal numbers, construction began with a ground-breaking ceremony on July 18, 2009.

The band later canceled on its own, but not before lawyers for some of Ticketmaster's rivals circulated reports that Ticketmaster was behind the report.

But outside, human rights advocates circulated reports that military-backed violence against peasants was continuing.

And analysts circulated reports that the company was ill-managed and inefficient.