"Takenaka may try to use the international support, but the forces inside the government are ultimately the ones who say what gets decided."

All those inside the government she asked were for it.

The Times should have moved more quickly to open a second line of reporting, particularly among scientists inside and outside the government.

Aside from that, I can't speak with certainty as to who else, inside the government, knew for sure.

But the ring maintained an intelligence network inside the government.

But there is also a desire inside the French government to play down the country's vulnerability.

He not only worked inside the government but wrote a newspaper article opposing involvement.

Most analysts both inside and outside the government believe those tapes to be authentic.

Inside the government, though, the situation was more complicated.

Even so, inside the government, the emerging consensus seemed to be against the likelihood of a test.