But I give you my word of honor, no matter whether I be in Opposition or at the head of the Government, if I receive every six months the retaining fee of which you speak, I will be your representative.
She must spend some time with me at the Government House.
He suggested that they should fill out the time meanwhile by a call on the President, and after a search for cards in various pocketbooks, they drove to the Government palace, which stood in an open square in the heart of the city.
But what has happened owing to the desire of the Government to do away with as many local gaols as possible?
Again, it is objected that the Scheme is too vast to be attempted by voluntary enterprise; it ought to be taken up and carried out by the Government itself.
They would be accustomed to the Government, Orders, and Regulations which they would have to obey.
Some years later the telegraphic announcement of an insignificant reverse at Langson provoked a fresh explosion which brought about the instantaneous overthrow of the government.
The socialists make an energetic defence; blows are exchanged, and each party accuses the other of being spies in the pay of the Government, &c.
If by 1874 the Georgia Negro alone owned three hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, it was by grace of his thrift rather than by bounty of the government.
The government of the unreconstructed South was thus put very largely in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau, especially as in many cases the departmental military commander was now made also assistant commissioner.
The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.
A loaded scow lay close beside the string-piece ofthe government wharf.
He thought of his men standing idle, and of the heavy penalties which would be inflicted by the Government if the winter caught him before the section of wall was complete.
At Lyons there is a class of men who, under cover of the monopoly given them by the city government, receive higher pay than college professors or the head-clerks of the government ministers: I mean the porters.
Thus two powers are contending for the governmentof the world, and cursing each other with the fervor of two hostile religions: political economy, or tradition; and socialism, or utopia.
The man whom religion has moulded, content to know, do, and obtain what suffices for his earthly destiny, never can become a source of embarrassment to the government: rather would he be a martyr.
Never had moralists a more favorable opportunity to assail the sensualism of the century, the venality of consciences, and the corruption instituted by the government: instead of that, what does the Academy of Moral Sciences do?
He said, that though the schools were nominally supported by the government, it was rarely that the schoolmasters could obtain their salaries, on which account many had of late resigned their employments.
In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors.
A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.
The buzzard is the sacred bird of the South, and you can't touch him; the alligator is the sacred bird of the Government, and you've got to let him alone.
Besides, they were not simply shoved out of the way; the most of the scoopful were scooped aboard; they emptied them into the hold; and when they had got a trip, they took them to Orleans to the Government works.
The Government's work is always conspicuous for excellence, solidity, thoroughness, neatness.
Then he died, and his son Cynric succeeded to the government, and held it six and twenty winters.
Then he died; and Ceol succeeded to the government, and reigned five years.
Then succeeded Alfred, their brother, to the government.
This year Cerdic and Cynric undertook the government of the West-Saxons; the same year they fought with the Britons at a place now called Charford.
Then succeeded Ceadwall to the government, whose kin goeth to Cerdic, and held it three years.
The Government was in a parlous state, with three demented Ministers on the loose.
Vennard's speech had dissolved his party into its parent elements, and the Opposition, as nonplussed as the Government, did not dare as yet to claim the recruit.
They were always talking about the rights of the white man, and demanding popular control of the Government, and similar twaddle.
He expects me to be a sort of wet-nurse to the Government of India and do all their dirty work for them.
She could scarcely recognise in him to-night the rising young debater who made embarrassing onslaughts on the Government's foreign policy before a crowded House of Commons.
So the Government is going to climb down, after all," she said, with a provocative assumption of private information on the subject.
There was something peculiarly exasperating in reading a brilliant and incisive attack on the Government's rash handling of public expenditure delivered by a young man who encouraged her son in every imaginable extravagance.
The Government of Scotland appears unable to proceed for Mistress Katrine Drummond, which was somewhat the case (no great while back) with a certain Mr. David Balfour.
In 1783, a law was passed by the government, widely differing in character from any which had hitherto been enacted in connection with the Gitano caste or religion in Spain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
