It was decided to _____ the search when there was no hope of finding the missing girl alive.

The Prime Minister refused to comment on the rumor that he had planned to _____.

. I support your decision, but I should also make it clear that I am not going to be _____ to it.

John _____ knowledge of radio just by staying around the radio station.

When products made in factories _____, they are thrown away as garbage.

. I _____ her not to walk on the thin ice but she would not listen to me.

The party, which had been greatly _____, was spoiled by the rude behavior of an uninvited guest.

Everything he said then was _____ by what happened later.

It was _____ by the railway board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten percent.

He's the kind of man who is fond of _____ compliments to other men's wives.