Security officials billed them as vicious Islamic extremists who came from all over the world to wage jihad in Syria.
Kremlin officials billed the capture of Grozny as a turning point in the battle with rebels in Chechnya.
When the deal was announced in February, university officials billed it as the largest donation in the athletic department's history, and one that would finance stadium operations and scholarships as Florida Atlantic moved into Conference USA.
President Hamid Karzai met here with the Qatari emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on March 31 in what Afghan officials billed as discussions about opening the office, but no developments were announced after the meeting.
But in the end, all NATO could muster was the establishment of the NATO-Georgia Council (which American officials billed as a slap in the face of Russia because it contained the words "NATO" and "Georgia" simultaneously).
In what White House officials billed as the first official visit of a sitting American president since John F. Kennedy, Air Force One landed just before noon and Mr. Obama bounded over to a crowd of about 1,000 people waiting for him at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
In an apparent bid to generate positive publicity around the bishops' conference, church officials billed it as the first synod of its kind in nearly 600 years — a bit of snappy marketing that was widely repeated by the Armenian news media and in a speech by President Serzh Sargsyan during the opening ceremony.
White House officials billed the reshuffling as a way to increase the payoff from the government's investment in STEM education across a dozen agencies.
"We'll probably have to wait until after the election," Trump said in Richfield, Ohio, during what administration officials billed as a major speech on infrastructure.
State officials, billing the meeting as an opportunity to strategize with industry leaders about how to help ensure that the fast-growing industry continues to prosper, made accommodations for television trucks and offered special Yogurt Summit news media credentials, the kind of preparations more often associated with events like governors' inaugurations and State of the State addresses.
3 THEY COST £770BN The official bill is £770bn.
