1.   Bar-Illan portrayed the government as angry over the pressure being exerted on it.

2.   More startling is the turnaround in how government in general is portrayed.

3.   No claim of wrongdoing, however improbable, seems to strain their credulity so long as it portrays our government as the villain.

4.   Opposition parties have sought to portray the government as unprepared for an epidemic.

5.   Defense lawyers portrayed the government as hasty and sloppy in its investigation that produced videotapes, audiotapes and photographs of defendants allegedly conspiring.

6.   Defense lawyers portrayed the government as hasty and sloppy in its investigation that produced videotapes, audiotapes and photographs of defendants allegedly conspiring for a war of urban terrorism.

7.   Moscow has long portrayed the government of Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev as a criminal regime and the forces loyal to him as gangsters and terrorists.

8.   Ms. Bhutto has tried to portray her government as a moderate administration faced with threats from Islamic militants, a powerful drug mafia and archrival India.

9.   Ms. Bhutto, meanwhile, has tried to portray her government as a moderate administration faced with threats from Islamic extremists, a powerful drug mafia and archrival India.

10.   She has sought to portray her government as a tolerant, democratic administration faced with threats from Islamic extremists, a powerful drug mafia and archrival India.