41.   In those years, and later, during the Cold War, the U.S. government frequently asked prominent citizens traveling abroad to report back on what they saw.

42.   In the first, the government asks people to say whether they are employed and, if not, whether they are looking for work.

43.   It announced a review of French contracts for Australian coal and said France was prepared to renounce its purchases of Australian uranium if the Australian government asks it to.

44.   It happened after the US government asked for the release of the brothers and after several well-known writers protested the detention.

45.   Its principal beneficiaries, growers of corn, sorghum, barley, wheat, rice and cotton, agree to plant no more land than the government asks.

46.   It was like asking Israelis for their opinion about whether the government should ask their opinion before it gives its opinion.

47.   Joe Stout, a Lockheed Martin spokesman, said the Taiwan government asked that the company not disclose the delivery date for the first Falcons.

48.   Last month, the Czech government asked an Austrian investment bank to prepare a privatization plan for Budweiser Budvar.

49.   Look at Waco and you realize that sometimes the government asks for it.

50.   Many governments will ask why they should get involved in Rwanda now.