The government had counted on television to promote its cause.

The government, it seems, is counting heavily on getting money from tax dodgers.

The government is also counting on the continuing cooperation of individual and corporate energy users in holding down demand.

When the sitting government counted the votes, however, it announced that its own slate of candidates had won.

But the government is counting on the rating system to encourage manufacturers to compete with one another to do better.

Some vaccine experts questioned yesterday whether the government could count entirely on small companies to make more than 200 million doses quickly.

Besides that, governments count on selling spectrum to bring them money.

If it comes to a vote, the government can count on support from an unlikely group: farmers.

The Somali government can barely count the dead, never mind run the country.

When people stop looking for a job, the government does not count them in the jobless rate.