1.   The Brazilian government has been battling large deficits for years, and indebtedness was a primary cause of investor uncertainty in the devaluation last year.

2.   The Japanese government is battling the threat that its flagging economy could slip back into recession.

3.   The Philippine government is currently battling against the Abu Sayyaf Islamic guerrilla force in the southern part of the country.

4.   The South Korean government battled fiercely against IMF requests that it shut insolvent banks to speed the restructuring of the financial sector.

5.   What is different this time, though, is that the government is battling the recession on many fronts.

6.   Peace deals have broken down many times in the past in Tajikistan, an ex-Soviet republic where a hard-line government has been battling rebel factions.

7.   Previous governments have battled the parliament for months to get the annual budget passed.

8.   Also, the Philippine government is battling a Muslim extremist campaign in the predominantly Christian country.

9.   As the Bosnian government battles rebel Serbs west of Sarajevo, both sides balk at fresh United Nations troops in the region.

10.   As the Bosnian government battled rebel Serbs west of Sarajevo, both sides balked at fresh United Nations troops in the region.