11.   The chief hang-up, analysts believe, is Japanese resistance to the third provision, which Tokyo regards as an intrusive government attempt to manage trade by fiat.

12.   The case also shows that the Internet, the global communications network, increasingly is blocking long-standing government attempts at censorship.

13.   The government attempt to stifle the new petition failed with its distribution Friday.

14.   The Morgan and Merrill proposals are two of many that are circulating around Jakarta and the region as banks and the government attempt to craft a solution.

15.   The station was launched five weeks ago amid a flurry of television regulations seen by analysts as a government attempt to obstruct Canal Satellite.

16.   Yet she wisely let the Senegalese continue to take the initiative, even going so far as to resist a government attempt to outlaw genital cutting unilaterally.

17.   Parliament endorsed a press and publications law Sunday that was sharply criticized by journalists as a government attempt to restrict press freedoms.

18.   A government attempt to break the siege would likely engulf Sarajevo and other Muslim enclaves in ferocious warfare with the Bosnian Serbs who surround them.

19.   A previous government attempt to create a competitor to China Telecom has failed.

20.   A government attempt to get the economy going is in trouble because of lack of funds and a scandal over book advances that has discredited top reformers.