Again, she had to issue heated denials.

Peter had sworn on his mother's name he had no such engraved box; his heated denial now looked very foolish.

Crafty old hog, thought Leeming - if he was trying to tempt the prisoner into a heated denial he was going to be disappointed.

Clearly, despite the Pentagon's heated denials, the campaign evolved differently than anticipated.

Though the State Department spokesmen issued heated denials, that was precisely the point Kissinger had been making for years in books, speeches, and congressional testimony.

"I was suspicious of Jay's heated denial when the leak first occurred and then his complete silence on our last call."

The long strike was a particularly bitter one, with charges of vandalism by the company and heated denials from the unions.

"Well, yes and no," he replied, and his nonchalance bewildered Janson more than any emphatic, heated denial would have.

That assertion drew heated denials from attorneys general who negotiated the tobacco accord and who are now preparing their states' cases against the industry.

Mr. Bush reacted with a flat, heated denial, and the impact of that exchange was difficult to discern.