Sentence examples for knowledgeable officials from inspiring English sources

According to knowledgeable officials, Qatar has allowed the United States to store ammunition at a secret facility in the desert.

The Palestinians, according to knowledgeable officials, are being asked to begin vigorous action against Hamas and other militant groups.

This separate assessment was confirmed by knowledgeable officials on Wednesday as some numbers began to leak out.

In fact, Mr. Brennan, a onetime C.I.A. station chief in neighboring Saudi Arabia, is widely regarded as one of the administration's most knowledgeable officials about the country.

Several knowledgeable officials said that the quartet's envoys have refrained from meeting with Mr. Arafat for some months in deference to American and Israeli demands.

But knowledgeable officials say former police and security officials with connections to Mr. Djindjic attempted to take provisional control of Belgrade police headquarters on Friday morning and again this morning, telling the chief of police, Gen. Branko Djuric, to hand over his authority and his firearm.

The latest note again contained threatening language but not target-specific language, a knowledgeable official emphasized.

A knowledgeable official said on Tuesday that waterboarding was used on three prisoners, the last time in 2003.

A knowledgeable official said today that language had been negotiated for the endorsement that would guarantee in a general way that Israel's concerns would be addressed.

Under a previously worked-out agreement, one knowledgeable official said, the C.I.A. did not have the authority to "push the button".

When detectives returned they found that he had pushed out ceiling panels, one knowledgeable official said, and the suspect was pulled down from his escape attempt.