More senior officials tend to be treated less severely, however.

Do military officials on the whole tend to see these companies as valuable assets or extraneous and harmful?

He said female officials tended to work harder and focus more attention on social programs than do male colleagues.

Moreover, the officials tend to ignore laws that allow obtaining such things and rights if they exist.

But many economists say public officials tend to overestimate the economic benefits of major sports events.

These scholars have argued that officials tend also to be motivated by considerations of the public interest.

But while elected officials tend to shy away from talk of tax increases, among private groups a debate has already been joined.

American officials tend to play down the idea of any immediate threat to the Saudi leadership.

As a result, officials who might once have made the evening rounds as part of their jobs, now tend to rush home.

But their top officials tend not to be buddies.