1.   Although elected officials may work against voter-passed initiatives, few say they spurn the public will.

2.   A Lego wall whose bricks can be rearranged according to public will, lowered to accommodate friendly exchanges that seem reasonable?

3.   But he never managed to build up sufficient public will to get it passed.

4.   But there are legislators in both parties who want to preserve a system that makes money more important than the public will.

5.   For all his private contemptuousness and fury at liberals, President Richard M. Nixon was careful not to publicly denounce the prevailing public will.

6.   It will also take a public will in Russia to push for such changes in the political system.

7.   It might even serve as an impediment to the public will as expressed in the voting booth.

8.   Some people complained that the election thwarted the public will.

9.   While many experts doubt these protestations of insufficient expertise, certainly there is no public will in Japan today for the country to acquire nuclear arms.

10.   Yet some analysts suggest that the faith in government could be damaged by politicians acting in apparent defiance of public will.