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Example sentences for "our government"

  • In any event, our Government is bound to protect the rights of our naturalized citizens everywhere to the same extent as though they had drawn their first breath in this country.

  • No one can practise law as an attorney in the United States without acknowledging the supremacy of our Government.

  • Talk of the slaveholding District of Columbia being a suitable locality for the seat of our Government!

  • This statement, by the way, applies also to the question of "usurpation" by any one branch of our Government of the rights of another branch.

  • The trouble is that our policy is apt to go in zigzags, because different sections of our people exercise at different times unequal pressure on our government.

  • They mean to petition Congress year after year, until the seat of our government is cleansed from the sinful traffic of "slaves and the souls of men.

  • He goes for consolidation and uniformity in our Government.

  • There are defects in our government, errors in administration, and short-comings of many kinds; but in spite of these defects and errors, Georgia has grown to be a great State.

  • By his correspondence it was discovered that all this money was to be brought over to England; a reason more than sufficient to incur the suspicion of our Government.

  • It was hinted to him, also, that this was a particular favour, and a proof of the generosity of our Government, as his papers contained many matters that might easily be construed to be of a treasonable nature.

  • Upon her complaint of this theft she was thrown into prison for not being able to support her complaint with proofs, and for attempting to vilify the characters of the agents of our Government.

  • Jefferson further related that, when Washington was re-elected, Hamilton took the position that the parade of the previous inauguration ought not to be repeated, remarking that "there was too much ceremony for the character of our government.

  • Every attache, if fit for his place, would be worth far more than his cost to our government, for he would not only add to the influence of the embassy or legation, but decidedly to its efficiency.

  • There is no one who can complain of the North for resisting the increase of slave representation, because it gives power to the minority in a manner inconsistent with the principles of our government.

  • Early in June he introduced a set of resolutions calling upon the President for information as to the time and mode in which the repeal of the French decrees had been communicated to our government.

  • Should the generous efforts of our Government to establish a free, independent Republican Empire in Mexico be successful, how fortunate, how enviable would be the situation in New Orleans!

  • It contributed to the repeal of the embargo--that dishonorable repeal, which has so much tarnished the character of our government.

  • The President (nodding his head in agreement): The discharge of the debt is vital to the destinies of our government, and for the present we must make all objects subordinate to this.

  • I believe that we have in our hands the means of peaceable coercion; and that the moment they see our government so united as that they can make use of it, they will for their own interest be disposed to do us justice.

  • Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment.

  • There have been but seven impeachment trials in the history of our government.

  • While it seems best to have one general law for the State upon important subjects, it is also the policy of our government to intrust the execution of the law, in most cases, to local rather than to State officials.

  • Mr. Cortlandt can assure you of our government's earnest co-operation.

  • Panama Railroad, which was built years ago during the California gold rush and bought by our government at the time of that terrible revolution I told you about.

  • The successful candidate will need the support of our government.

  • The machineries of the law making, judicial, and executive branches of our Government, are sufficient for any calls that Confiscation can make on them.

  • They have been legislated out of everything, and the one function of our government, as at present conducted, is to see that this legislation is enforced.

  • Some years ago, they were wantonly butchered in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and it was as difficult for the Chinese to get indemnity out of our Government as it was for the Powers to get indemnity out of China for the Boxer outrages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hundred things; metres high; our being; our best; our citizens; our common; our constitution; our country; our days; our earth; our father; our fathers; our fellow; our host; our house; our men; our own; our race; our readers; our senses; our state; our subject; our voyage; pastoral staff; strong fortress; such manner