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Example sentences for "government under"

  • In 1906, His Majesty's Government gave the Transvaal Colony self-government under a constitution which included a clause placing the voteless native taxpayers under the special protection of the Crown.

  • Napoleon baited his trap with no less attractive a morsel than self-government under a wise monarch in order to catch Alexander I.

  • They made peace without success, but through the instrumentality of the Great Powers the sultan agreed to allow Crete self-government under an elected assembly.

  • After all, humanity has to manage its own problems, and there will never be a government under which it will not have all it can do to make the doubts of today resolve themselves into the confidence of tomorrow.

  • How highly does he prize the form of government under which he lives?

  • The third gift to which I would call your attention is the form of government under which we live.

  • You must not only have faith in yourselves, in humanity and in the form of government under which we live, but if you would do a great work, you must have faith in God.

  • It was a government under a king to which the colonies owed allegiance.

  • It was the brutality of a government under a king which inspired the framers of the Constitution so carefully to guard against the abuses which the world had known before liberty had been established on American soil.

  • It was resistance to government under a king which inspired the heroes who won the liberty of the new world.

  • Democracy and republicanism, as we use the terms in these talks, have no reference to any political party, but relate solely to the form of government under which we live.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called natural; cent stamps; fine work; four square; government cabinet; government head; government land; government must; government note; government ought; government owned; government ownership; government publications; government revenue; government revenues; government securities; government should; government were; government would; much obleeged; rail fence; shake hands; sound philosophy; sufficient supply; what appeared; wing coverts