1.   The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union.

2.   In many emerging markets, both in Latin America and Asia, the governments link their currencies tightly to the US dollar.

3.   Some human rights groups maintain that Western governments should link foreign aid negotiations with progress on the issue.

4.   The Bosnian government has linked the two to executions of Muslims in the Sarajevo area.

5.   The government has linked that purchase to the bomb that destroyed the federal building.

6.   The government has linked the killings of Cardoso and Siba-Siba to corruption in the banks and it has vowed to catch the killers.

7.   The rarely used charge enables the government to link several different crimes by arguing that they were all committed for the purpose of opposing the United States by force.

8.   Although Yilmaz said his government would not link the two issues, Parliament has the final say.

9.   As late as Friday, scores of soldiers virtually occupied the town of Texpetixla, home to a peasant group that the government has linked to the rebels.

10.   As late as Friday, scores of soldiers virtually occupied the town of Tepetixtla, home to a peasant group that the government has linked to the rebels.