1.   But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.

2.   The government has altered the rules governing eligibility for unemployment benefit.

3.   Although it restricts the hunting season to three months, it allows regional governments to alter the deadline.

4.   As the Mexican government was altering its requirements, the economies in both countries started improving.

5.   But some economists and sociologists suggest that the government cannot alter behavior in that way.

6.   In Taipei early on Thursday morning, an official told Reuters news service that the Taiwan government would not alter its approach toward China now that Deng was dead.

7.   Still, analysts said the delay would have little impact, especially as the government has repeatedly altered its sales timetable.

8.   Their fears that the government would alter the rules have been well-founded.

9.   He said he hoped to achieve this through expenditure cuts but said the government would not alter its curent social spending program.

10.   Thousands of protesting miners will not cause the government to alter its plan for slashing coal subsidies, Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt said Wednesday.