11.   Republican lawmakers said the permit issue exemplified a clear-cut case in which a government favor was exchanged for campaign contributions.

12.   Sibneft nevertheless continues to benefit from government favors like its inclusion in a food-for-oil exchange with Iraq.

13.   The peculiar selectivity about which groups get government favors makes nonsense of the moral claims made by defenders of the present system.

14.   The president also showered government favors on civic groups that had supported him, and gave himself the sole power to promote a general to the highest military rank.

15.   The program looks into how businessmen in quest of government favors became major benefactors of Republican candidates while concealing where the money was coming from.

16.   The Soviets jerked composer Dmitri Shostakovich up and down on a yo-yo of government favor and disfavor.

17.   There have been signs that at least some in the government favor cutting the publishing industry loose, officially allowing private publishers to operate.

18.   They are about patterns of lying and abuses of governmental power that are at least as corrupt as accepting money in return for government favors.

19.   They asserted that most in their group were so wealthy that they had no real need for any government favors.

20.   Traficant is accused of years of racketeering by soliciting bribes from executives in return for government favors.