It was the first time such figures had been publicly released and was an extraordinary admission, even though experts said the true numbers were certainly higher.

He succeeded, but only after the firm made an extraordinary and unusual admission of "unlawful conduct" in the tax shelter business by former partners between 1996 and 2002.

The official announcement on state television that Mr. Milosevic was trailing was already an extraordinary admission that the government's campaign had gone badly wrong.

The Chief's extraordinary admission won praise from some community leaders and vindicated those whose complaints about his department have been greeted with silence for the last month.

But the road from that extraordinary admission, to proof admissible in court, to a conviction is likely to be a very long and bumpy one.

In an extraordinary admission, the President's own attorney has acknowledged the care, the intention, the will of the President to say precisely what he said.

He wasn't sure what to make of this extraordinary admission.

The question seemed an extraordinary admission by Montgomery that he was uncomfortable with the scrutiny and the expectation that come with the designation of world's fastest human.

That is an extraordinary admission.

The breathtaking element in these extraordinary admissions was not what was said but who was saying it.