11.   If the government does sue, Northwest and Continental are expected to challenge the government in court because they think they have a strong case.

12.   In others, local governments have sued to prevent construction.

13.   In those instances, the government sues when quality is deficient, contending that federal programs were cheated out of what they paid for.

14.   It lets the government sue present and past owners, operators, and users of those sites to pay for cleanup costs.

15.   Last week, the Canadian government sued British Columbia to block shutdown of Nanoose Bay.

16.   Local governments sue in courts across the land and they lose.

17.   Now, the city and the U.S. Justice Department are negotiating an alternative to having the federal government sue the police department for a pattern of civil rights violations.

18.   One problem is that the federal government might sue to get a portion of the money unless the city sets aside more of it for health purposes.

19.   The federal government has sued the Giuliani administration, charging it with doing too little to protect women in workfare jobs from sexual and racial harassment by their supervisors.

20.   The federal government has sued.