Though officials boast that the animals are under close surveillance, they don't do any monitoring once an elephant is released to a private owner.

Her death has shaken many in the city, particularly as officials are boasting of a safer city.

Soviet and American officials boast that they are near agreement on banning chemical weapons.

It's a wonderful school where officials once boasted that 1 in every 12 players in America's recognized symphonies were graduates of their summer training.

Elected officials could boast that they had kept the club in the Bronx at modest public cost.

Japanese officials boasted that playing host to such a meeting was a signal of its environmental concerns.

Israeli officials, however, have boasted of killing well over 100 armed men in the last two weeks.

Pakistani officials boasted that he had been "broken" during interrogation.

And officials boasted that they had so far received only 2,100 appeals, or about one-fourth as many as last year.

"We were right on the inside," boasted one official.