1.   This is an example of government efforts to foster new initiatives by creating an agency outside of direct central political control.

2.   This frustrates government efforts in checking desert encroachment.

3.   Analysts and investors have praised government efforts to speed up state asset sales as a way of boosting efficiency and supporting the EMU qualifying program.

4.   An investigation into the Raytheon contract has delayed voting in congress on government efforts to slash state spending on social security benefits and state payroll.

5.   Another government effort at reinforcement collapsed when a munitions supply flight to Matadi had to be aborted after rebels fired on the cargo plane.

6.   Argentine stocks fell this week as labor unions protested tax measures and amid concern that government efforts to cut the budget would falter.

7.   Argentine government efforts to modernize labor laws that business leaders say will save them millions of dollars each year have hit a snag.

8.   As a senator, John D. Ashcroft was a friend of civil libertarians, a conservative Missouri Republican working to thwart government efforts to peek into private e-mail communications.

9.   As in the past, interest rate cuts will largely hinge on government efforts to contain spending.

10.   As debate continues on whether to regulate the Internet, most efforts to inhibit material has consisted of government efforts to ban pornography.