1.   The government contended that most of the refugees were fleeing poverty, not persecution.

2.   The government contends that he is fundamentalist.

3.   However, the Czech government contended that it could not afford to stop selling arms until substitute industries were in place.

4.   And the motive was rogue self-delusion, the government contends.

5.   As a military contractor, Boeing is obliged to supply the documents, the government contended.

6.   Britain has many reasons to be proud of its health system, and indeed, the government contends that there is no crisis.

7.   But neither man has been portrayed by prosecutors in the kind of senior position which the government contends Salim had in the organization run by bin Laden.

8.   But the Bosnian government contends that all Serbian men must be checked for war crimes.

9.   But the government contends that he was in the United States to help plan and supervise the Trade Center bombing and that he fled the next day.

10.   But the government contended that the deal still amounted to a takeover that would inhibit competition between the two carriers on nine critical routes.