1.   The government obtained a court order requiring the editor to reveal his source.

2.   However, the government did not obtain from the ANC any commitment to end strikes and boycotts by blacks in protest at working conditions.

3.   Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies.

4.   Another proposal would make it easier for the government to obtain the content of e-mail traffic in some cases.

5.   But in this case, the government also obtained direct evidence from Schilling.

6.   But the government has obtained other evidence as well.

7.   But the information the government obtains need not be intimate to constitute a violation of privacy.

8.   By early Monday evening, he appeared not to have changed his view that this was the best settlement the government could obtain.

9.   Defense lawyers would likely argue that the tape should not be admitted into evidence at all because it is not clear how the government obtained it.

10.   For years, the government obtained wholesale prices from trade publications like the Red Book, published by Medical Economics, a unit of Thomson Corp.