They can evict news organizations from government-owned buildings or pressure landlords to evict troublesome news bureaus.

In both Hilla and Karbala, the C.P.A. had kicked out religious parties from government-owned buildings to install the women's centers.

It was, Wise thought, a place designed by a blind architect, so lacking in aesthetic as to be a definite government-owned building even in this country.

"More than 170 schools have been bombed or torched, along with other government-owned buildings."

The government-owned building has been home to the ethnographical department of the British Museum for the last 30 years.

Liberal-controlled local, departmental and national governments ended contracts with religious communities who operated schools in government-owned buildings, and set up secular schools in their place.

Government officials said this meeting was more sensitive than the last one because Falun Gong is renting a government-owned building for its activities.

The Falun Gong spiritual sect, outlawed in China but legal here, plans to hold a conference this weekend in a government-owned building.

After all, this is the man who once was reported to have declared upon being stopped from lighting a cigar in a government-owned building, "I am the federal government."

The townies worked for the government and lived in government-owned buildings -except for a very few who were in private trade.