1.   Government lawyers said the case was neither merited nor admissible.

2.   Trinidadian government lawyers had argued that the pardon was given under duress and therefore was invalid.

3.   A FURTHER legal hitch to the Maastricht bill was under urgent scrutiny by government lawyers last night.

4.   Although prosecutors did not identify the caller, it was clear from earlier statements by government lawyers that they would contend that the caller was Yousef.

5.   And bringing powerful charges, another government lawyer said, was partly a strategy to get information from Lee, and perhaps force a plea.

6.   And like Edelstein, Jackson has shown a marked preference for the arguments made by the government lawyers over those put forward by the company.

7.   And one government lawyer said the Los Alamos National Laboratory had harmed the case by giving deeply conflicting views of the value of the weapons information Lee improperly downloaded.

8.   And when White House aides were summoned to testify about what they knew, government lawyers fought the subpoenas on a claim of executive privilege.

9.   At his hearing, however, a government lawyer argued that he might have simply been a deserter from the Russian army.

10.   At a hearing on Monday, government lawyers filed motions to have him fed intravenously.