The phrase "altogether officials" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to officials as a collective group, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The meeting was attended by altogether officials from various departments."
Alternatives: "all the officials" or "the officials in total".
The U.S. effort may collapse altogether, officials said, if Bolton leaves the State Department in coming weeks, as is expected.
Months before issuing his pardon of Mr. Arpaio, the president asked top aides if the case could be dropped altogether, officials say.
Yet instead of abandoning the practice altogether, officials are still teaching the method to trappers.Michael McDonald, a biologist in the division of wildlife conservation, explains that the numbers of wolves have to be kept down in some areas to allow the caribou herds to expand.
Or it could mean an end to tolls altogether, administration officials said.
Altogether, United Nations officials said, 16 posts were attacked by Croats and 98 peacekeepers were captured by Croatian forces.
He fired off some comments about his NBC employers that may get him removed from the show altogether, network officials said yesterday.
And, citing fears that the controversy over the immigration service's treatment of foreigners here might lead the airline to scrap them altogether, public officials here have begun mounting a furious campaign to revamp the office.
The Bush administration's plan for postwar Iraq has run into such stiff opposition at the United Nations Security Council that the administration has pulled back from seeking a quick vote endorsing the proposal and may shelve it altogether, administration officials said.
One day after a power failure scrambled service on the New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad, travelers on Thursday negotiated the patchwork system assembled in its place, or simply avoided the rails altogether, as officials warned that a full restoration remained a long way off.
Some of these individuals, as well as others who were already on the terrorism watch list, have now been placed on more selective lists that subject them to secondary screening before boarding a commercial airline flights, or that bar them from flying to the United States altogether, intelligence officials said.
The Bush administration has run into such stiff opposition at the United Nations Security Council to its plan for the future government of Iraq that it has pulled back from seeking a quick vote endorsing the proposal and may shelve it altogether, administration officials said Tuesday.
