1.   The government was forced to row back on an austerity plan that would have involved wage cuts.

2.   A group of people selling buckets of blueberries in front of a bombed-out building complained that the new Muslim-led government was being forced on them.

3.   Congress wrote the tax cut law in bizarre ways to keep it from forcing the government back into deficit spending.

4.   Currency problems in Southeast Asia are forcing governments there to delay construction projects, reducing demand for copper.

5.   Democrats countered that forcing the government into default will not solve the federal deficit.

6.   Demographic realities are forcing the government, already deep in debt, to find ways to pay for a graying society.

7.   In effect, it is forcing government back into fiscal responsibility.

8.   In the southernmost state of Chiapas, Maya rebels have forced the government to the bargaining table.

9.   Investors were concerned that passage of the bill would force the government to abandon its fiscal austerity program.

10.   It was not immediately clear whether the opposition would call a confidence vote in Parliament and force the government out of power.