He said he wanted to review the nature of the bidding; others said he didn't want to risk inevitable accusations of political favoritism.

I should like to add, though I risk accusations of vanity, I took pride in my own appearance as well.

The Government is looking for a way to combat the rebels without risking accusations of imposing a wider political clampdown.

Few of them care to risk accusations that they are "soft on drugs."

But Professor Esposito added that the United States still risks accusations of a double standard with regard to the Muslim world.

"Action-team members risk accusations of grandstanding by colleagues for using recycled business cards."

But many Senate Democrats balked at the Feingold plan, unwilling to risk accusations that they were not supporting troops in the field.

Stay faithful to the majority of men who fell short last autumn and he risks obvious accusations of damage limitation.

The approach chosen by the Council also risks accusations of inconsistency.

To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama.