They belong amid minimal hints and echoes of the rooms that they have left sometime in the past.

The case had stalled amid hints of international arms and drug deals.

The dollar surged amid hints that the U.S. might be ready to rebound from recession.

There was always an air of mystery about Browne, and he departed in 1926 amid hints of unsavouriness.

Mr. Cheney also flew to Qatar, amid hints from some officials that Washington wanted to obtain access to air bases in that gulf state as well.

Amid hints of American military strikes, the Security Council sent the chief inspector at that time, Rolf Ekeus, to Iraq to demand admission to the closed sites.

Amid hints that she continues to exist in some form, Casshern searches for her to find the cause of the state of the world, and the reason behind his apparent immortality.

The offer, the authority's first comprehensive proposal since negotiations started on Oct. 14, came amid hints that some workers may have begun an unauthorized slowdown.

Meanwhile Smith re-appears in the afterlife to replace the Fosterites' eponymous founder, amid hints that Smith was an incarnation of the Archangel Michael.

Their battle comes amid hints of labor unrest among Columbia's physicians.