1.   The government asked them, like the peasants, to make superhuman efforts.

2.   The government asked the committee to write a report, and then failed to take up any of its recommendations.

3.   Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela offered immediate food aid and the Costa Rican government asked for urgent international aid.

4.   Both governments had asked for the help of the governments of Argentina, Chile and the Andean Pact countries to resolve the matter.

5.   And the government cannot ask the Supreme Court to take the case until the overall appeal is filed.

6.   At that point, the government could ask again for a breakup, if the software market has not become more competitive and Microsoft is demonstrably to blame.

7.   Because the bombing resulted in a death, the federal government could ask for the death penalty, a decision that will be made by Attorney General Janet Reno.

8.   A federal prosecutor said the government will ask for leniency in their sentencing.

9.   A few months later, the Russian government separately asked the FBI for help in tracing the ransom in a kidnapping case.

10.   According to an account by Whitacre in Fortune magazine last month, the government asked him to begin taping conversations at the company of the price-fixing scheme.