1.   And a tax aimed at self-employed workers, due to take effect this year, is seen by many entrepreneurs as a government attempt to stifle private enterprise.

2.   Any government attempt to change things by fiat may unwittingly hurt more health-care system customers than it helps.

3.   A government attempt to buoy the stock market by purchasing shares had only fleeting effects.

4.   Demonstrators angered by a government attempt to divide the Indonesian Democratic Party clashed with police and military forces in central Jakarta Thursday.

5.   Government attempts to influence the press in wartime are nothing new.

6.   Given that labor costs are the biggest operating expense of most businesses, workers almost always pay the most for government attempts to help the working class.

7.   It has energized a waterfront area that previously resisted all government attempts at revitalization.

8.   Like so many money-making schemes associated with Texas, a state government attempt to privatize welfare is big, bold and inherently risky.

9.   Mourners in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, vowed to oppose any government attempt to expel them from the West Bank.

10.   Opponents of the order call it a government attempt to win political support from ardently Orthodox Jews, who have protested excavations they consider a desecration of Jewish graves.