1.   Early this week, brokerages asked the government to speed up its opening of the stock market to foreign investors and to take other stimulus measures.

2.   Governments have also speeded up the granting of exploration permits.

3.   Other analysts and business leaders have called on the government to speed up the deregulation of the economy.

4.   Shares in federal utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, or Eletrobras, rose amid speculation the government will speed plans to sell assets in the state-controlled industry.

5.   The government should now speed up budget reforms aimed at cutting spending, reducing borrowing in domestic markets and freeing capital for investments that promote growth, he said.

6.   The new government can speed up all these reforms and turn Russia around to economic growth and rising economic welfare already this year.

7.   Blunkett said the government would speed up the process of approving or rejecting applications for asylum in Britain.

8.   But in the Sikh rioting murder cases, successive Congress Party governments never sped the prosecution, apparently because some of its legislators were allegedly involved in the rioting.

9.   By tightening the law on cults, the communist government sped up the trials of principal members already in custody.

10.   During the campaign, the government will speed up its efforts to promote human rights awareness both among citizens and government officials.