Word Finder - government

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The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.

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(grammar) The relationship between a word and its dependents.

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The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.

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If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.

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The management or control of a system.

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The tenure of a chief of state.

We have no control over what the government does.

Government is a great achievement of civilization.

He must keep order, keep the law, that's what the government is there for.

It was a government business agency.

It is unprecedented for so many nations to change their form of government so quickly and peacefully.

Not only are we eliminating historically warlike forms of government, we are replacing them with peaceful ones, namely democracy.

It is part of government's commitment to support families.

People can come together and choose a form of government suitable to them.

Why were bundles of useless papers from the government offices, and Leppich's balloon and other articles removed?

Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.

Government is the servant of the people, not the master.

His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.

She rubbed her face and considered ignoring her instinct, wanting to give the high-level government members the benefit of the doubt.

It was government's proposal to introduce a formalized resettlement program.

There will be no peace talks between the PMF and the government now.

If this happens, the government becomes an agent that works against the very ideals it purports to protect.

Others say poor nations need to develop free markets in agriculture and strongly discourage government intervention.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Guard dogs trotted forward to sniff him and his men while a doctor in a blue government jumpsuit approached them, eyes pinned to the injured man carried between two others.

It had been addressed to the Peace Command Center—the site where peace had been declared and the new government created after the East-West Civil War—in Colorado.

Now that there was no government, she was nothing!

That is all the government needs to tax to bring in the $300 per person per year.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Though this news was being concealed from the inhabitants, the officials--the heads of the various government departments--knew that Moscow would soon be in the enemy's hands, just as Count Rostopchin himself knew it, and to escape personal responsibility they had all come to the governor to ask how they were to deal with their various departments.

In the end, the federal government had to change its approach and send another question to the Supreme Court.

It is not many moments that I live under a government, even in this world.

How is this need filled without government involvement?

Electronic transfers mean the money of a government, business, or individual might be anywhere at any time.

The area beyond the gates and inspections was quiet, with men and women dressed in government uniforms touring the compound like it was any other day and not possibly the last day of the world.

Sometimes countries simply nationalize industries, so that an enterprise once owned by a private company, often a foreign-based one, is taken over by the government or "the people."

After the death of Gracchus, a conservative government under Sulla withdrew the subsidy, but shortly afterward, in a period of great unrest, restored it, and two hundred thousand persons stood in line.

No government is involved in these organizations, which are instead driven by a combination of religious and civic motives.

For these reasons and a hundred more, government should be the smallest unit that is economically and politically viable.

Two interesting government programs are under way in the United States, according to a June 2011 article in The New York Times.

Anyone who loves civilization necessarily appreciates the role of government in protecting liberties.

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?

He distrusted government and said 'that government governs best which governs least.'

I realize in these pages I must seem very distrustful of government, but it is not really true.

The government operating in its correct role is instrumental to civilization.

Is the government involved, or backing her in some way?

Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

If he knew something was about to happen, then others within the government did as well.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

As a government grows in size, even if the growth is in social programs, it inevitably grows in its intrusion on civil liberty.

You could finance the entire government and its (hopefully) noble agenda, by this method alone.

There were bazaars, shops, warehouses, market stalls, granaries--for the most part still stocked with goods-- and there were factories and workshops, palaces and wealthy houses filled with luxuries, hospitals, prisons, government offices, churches, and cathedrals.

Tim, his government contact and the highest-ranking individual in the PMF, was already on screen when Brady entered the comms center.

I worry we won't be enough to maintain government ops for much longer.

After all, that's the government taking more than half of what you make.

In other words, civil government steps in to take over roles traditionally provided by private charity only when charities no longer provide the service.