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Sentences starting with government

Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their pigeonholes of documents in small rooms. [2]
Government by a railroad will lead in the end to anarchy. [9]
Government Reports have no general circulation. [5]
Government fare was hard. [9]
Government by the consent of the people is the best government, but it is not government by the people when it is in the hands of political bosses, who juggle with the theory of majority rule. [4]
Government ought to build it. [5]
Government and state and private experts came and made tests and went away again; new machinery arrived, and Hugh passed hours in the sun, often with Honora by his side, installing it. [9]
Government is doing a deal for the Mississippi, now--spending loads of money on her. [5]

Sentences ending with government

Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government. [11]
For a hundred years we have reckoned it progress, that the people were taking part in government. [4]
A man invests years of work and a vast sum of money in a worthy enterprise, upon the faith of existing laws; then the law is changed, and the man is robbed by his own government. [5]
But no, that would be common sense--and out of place in a government. [5]
Every sober-minded citizen, will agree that they give us a pretty good government. [9]
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and, next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government. [7]
What clean clothes, what good faces, what tranquil contentment, what prosperity, what genuine freedom, what superb government. [5]
For Maryland was well pleased with his Lordship's government. [9]
I think that was the condition in which we found ourselves when we established this government. [7]
It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government. [7]

Short sentences using government

I have telegraphed the Government. [11]
This Government does that. [5]
The government will settle now. [5]
He represents the government. [5]
I'd stick to government. [11]
And what a government! [2]
This Government is entirely independent. [5]
Clerks of Government Departments. [5]
Government, abolition of, 141. [6]
Government? [5]

Sentences containing government two or more times

I suppose it was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. [7]
In fact, it was after the simple strangers had left the government care that March feared their woes might begin; and he would have liked the government to follow each of them to his home, wherever he meant to fix it within our borders. [8]
It depends altogether upon the proposition that the States must, without the interference of the General Government, do all those things that pertain exclusively to themselves,--that are local in their nature, that have no connection with the General Government. [7]
Applied to government, this principle would be, that a general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them. [7]
Applied in government, this principle would be that a general government shall do all those things which pertain to it, and all the local governments shall do precisely as they please in respect to those matters which exclusively concern them. [7]
While abuses like these exist, tolerated by the majority that not only make public opinion, but make the laws, this is not a government for the people, any more than a government of bosses is a government by the people. [4]
He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improvements being made, inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold, and they enabled the government to sell the lands which could not be sold without them. [7]
In a word, the people will save their government if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well. [7]
Parties connected with the government of the District of Columbia and with the former city government of New York, who may desire to inspect the rings, will be allowed time and every facility. [5]
Rest assured, therefore, that we shall be found always just and paternal in our transactions with your government, and that nothing will be omitted on my part to make your residence in this capital agreeable to yourself and satisfactory to your government. [7]

More example sentences with the word government in them

Get emancipation into your new State government constitution and there will be no such word as fail for your cause. [7]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
Allegiance to Brigham Young and Utah was renounced, and a temporary territorial government for "Washoe" was instituted by the citizens. [5]
Hasn't it struck you, Fersen, that unless a man has a voice and an interest in the industry in which he works his voice, and interest in the government for which he votes is a mockery? [9]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
Let me tell you I have an order from the British Government to confine him to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and, if he does, to arrest him. [11]
I believe that you and I together could run this government beautifully, uncle. [5]
If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good. [5]
I said I would haunt them; I would infest every department of this iniquitous government till that contract business was settled. [5]
The Federal Government would find its highest interest in such a measure, as one of the most efficient means of self-preservation. [7]
If, when the worst should come to the worst, they meant to overthrow the government, they also meant to inherit the assets themselves, no doubt. [5]
I said that, without remarking upon the singularity of such a question, coming, as it did, from a member of that same government, I would inform him that I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. [5]
The prefect discussed with the Patriarch the inauspicious effects that the death of the young fellow might be expected to have on the Emperor, and as a result, on the government, although the favorite had had no qualities of mind to distinguish him. [10]
Agreements entered into with the government by union leaders will not hold him if at any time he fails to be satisfied that the present world conflict will not result in a greater social justice. [9]
The Government Arsenal, with its stores of arms and ammunition, was the prize. [9]
So he added with deliberation: "If alliance must still be kept with this evil government of France, then be sure there is no Vaufontaine who would care to inherit a duchy so discredited. [11]
Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
The coming woman will not smoke, to be sure; neither will she, in coming forward to take charge of the government, plead the Baby Act. [4]
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. [7]
The stir for wider freedom in religion and government increased with the activity of exploration and colonization, and one reason why James finally annulled the Virginia, charter was because he regarded the meetings of the London Company as opportunities of sedition. [4]
The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress. [4]
There are those who profess to fear that our government is becoming a mere irresponsible tyranny. [6]
The government at Whitehall still consulted him, still relied upon his knowledge and his natural tact; but secret as his conferences were with the authorities, they were not so secret that criticism was not viciously at work. [11]
The canal for which he was taxed gave his feddan of land no water, for the Pasha, the friend of the Government, took all the water for his own land. [11]
The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the government under which we live is this very thing. [7]
An unpleasant altercation which arose between the temporary incumbent of the office and the Government of the Pasha resulted in a suspension of intercourse. [7]
Of all that which a President might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne without which it was believed possible to keep the government on foot. [7]
I don't know whether the noble lord has repented or not; but I do say that his Government will rue it, if his answer is not the one word 'Intervention! [11]
For the source whence the Thug tales mainly came was a Government Report, and without doubt was not republished in America; it was probably never even seen there. [5]
A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling. [11]
Mr. Motley knew well what was the logical order in an official execution, and saw fit to let the government work its will upon him as its servant. [6]
For Maryland was well content with the government she had enjoyed, and her best patriots long after shunned the length of secession. [9]
But as the weeks wore away, Conrad's color came back to his cheeks and his old-time vivacity to his eye, and he administered the government with a clear and steadily ripening wisdom. [5]
Then all the way down from the capital to the city ward, we shall have vital popular government, free action, discussion, agitation, life. [4]
The Naval Brigade was to go to Fort Monroe without trouble to the government, and must so go or not at all. [7]
Whatever mistake he was thought to have committed was condoned by amicable treatment, neutralized by the virtual indorsement of the government in the instructions of the 25th of September, and obsolete as a ground of quarrel by lapse of time. [6]
And again, there was the government official, intrusted with public money, which, in those days, implied that he was supposed to be honest. [6]
That old-time Tammany was the East India Company's government, and had its headquarters at Calcutta. [5]
Even my father was symbolized with unparalleled audacity as a watchful government which had, up to the present, no inkling of our semi-piratical intentions! [9]
Once the succession was secure beyond the imbecile Leopold John, then he would certainly declare against the present fiendish Government and for the overthrown dynasty. [11]
The Boer government was scared, and it had a right to be. [5]
The new government was received with considerable coolness. [5]
Democracy in government was outstripping her. [9]
This additional curtailment was most felt by families of small income, whose earners were at the front or away on other government service. [9]
A Government boat was hastening in to the bank, almost opposite her house. [11]
A great movement was going on to transfer actual participation in government from the few to the many, --a movement towards true Democracy, and that was precisely what was about to happen in the Church. [9]
Perhaps the man was English and a spy of the English government, for was there not disaffection in some of the parishes? [11]
But the government was different then, and there were no Riders of the Plains. [11]
A gentleman who was at the head of the government twenty years ago confirms this, and says that in his time the parliament was orderly and well-behaved. [5]
Meanwhile he would warn the government at once about the projected French naval raid. [11]
During the existing war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. [7]
But if he wants good government, he must pay as careful attention to the machinery,--call it caucus, primary, convention, town-meeting,--as he does to the machinery of his own business. [4]
Well, what I want to know is this--are we to give in to the government, or do we stand to be hammered by Sir Erasmus Gower? [11]
The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders; and this government has no choice left but to deal with it where it finds it. [7]
I have said, very many times, in Judge Douglas's hearing, that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end. [7]
None save a very few conspirators knew how great a part it played in the plan to break the government of Ireland and to ruin England's position in the land. [11]
He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. [5]
An hour brought us to the resting-place called the Hermitage, an osteria and observatory established by the government. [4]
The bad effect upon the November election, and especially the giving the State government to those who will oppose the war in every possible way, are too much to risk if it can be avoided. [7]
He insisted, therefore, upon its being changed from the basis upon which the fathers of the government left it to the basis of its perpetuation and nationalization. [7]
Then they chock up the rest with advice to the Government. [5]
Then speculators buy up the ground and sell, but the original owner is given the first choice by the government at a stated price before the speculator is permitted to purchase. [5]
At his fireside, unknown to my grandfather and to Mr. Allen, I had learned the true principles of government. [9]
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? [7]
They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know; that they had never thought about it before, and it hadn't ever occurred to them that a nation could be so situated that every man _could_ have a say in the government. [5]
Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail, still come back into the Union unhurt. [7]
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
And from the two propositions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on doing their part to maintain our common government and country, despite the folly or wickedness, as they may conceive, of any administration. [7]
The population's only two hundred--" "That's all right, that's all right--" "And they hadn't any right to elect me; we're not even a territory, there's no Organic Act, the government hasn't any official knowledge of us whatever. [5]
The world had turned upside down indeed if the City Government of Hampton refused to take the advice of the agent of the Chippering Mill! [9]
Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it. [7]
Let the government turn all the hostiles on the frontier into brass bands, and we shall hear no more of the Indian question. [4]
A minister was trying to create influential friends for a project which might be worth ten millions a year to the agriculturists of the Republic; and our Government had furnished him ham and lemonade to persuade the opposition with. [5]
Now, it is true that the ultimate end of any system of government or civilization should be the improvement of the individual man. [4]
No one appeared troubled or anxious; the officials had a conscientious civility; the government seemed to manage their welcome as well as a private company or corporation could have done. [8]
When France's great trouble came to her, and the nobles fled, or went to fight for the King in the Vendee, the old Duke, with a dreamy indifference to the opinion of Europe, had proclaimed alliance with the new Government. [11]
After that dark town-meeting day some of those stern old fathers became broken men, and it is said in Coniston that this calamity to righteous government, and not the storm, gave to Priest Ware his death-stroke. [9]
But other news too was carrying through the town: the French Government, having learned of the Duke's intentions towards Philip, had despatched envoys from Paris to forbid the adoption and deed of succession. [11]
She had a tolerable record for speed, and for other things so important that they were now and again considered by the Government at Quebec. [11]
Jeff Thompson afterwards told Philip that he once asked Senator Atchison, then acting Vice-President: of the United States, about the possibility of acclimation; he thought the opinion of the second officer of our great government would be, valuable on this point. [5]
They were gathered together in little settlements on neighboring islands, and paternally cared for by the Government, and instructed in religion, and deprived of tobacco, because the superintendent of the Sunday-school was not a smoker, and so considered smoking immoral. [5]
Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. [9]
When you return to your homes, rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. [7]
Every Unionist ought to wish the new government to succeed; and every disunionist must desire it to fail. [7]
I'll go back to Washington, and if the government has any backbone, if it's still American, they'll go to work or fight! [9]
I went next to the Secretary of War, who was not inclined to see me at all until he learned that I was connected with the government. [5]
They were admitted to the presence of the indomitable Lyon, who informed them that Captain Colfax was a prisoner of war, and, since the arsenal was Government property, not in the state. [9]
Did you write to the government and say he ought not to be free to roam, lest he should discover more treasure-chests and buy another estate? [11]
In my devotion to the duties of government and the chase, I have not yet wholly forgotten enthusiasm. [10]
The principal objection to the choice made by the powerful head of the government was that it had fallen on land owned by a private individual. [10]
It grieves me to tell you, sir, that young as you are you have been guilty of treason against the King, and of grave offence against his Lordship's government. [9]
You have but to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress to become free, even as we are, to enjoy the blessings of that American government under which we live and for which we fight. [9]
Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break," said Pierre (as those who examine the actions of any government have always said since governments began). [2]
We just want to study the people and the government, and see the principal places. [4]
He had come to study French government in New Caledonia, to gauge the extent of the menace that the convict question bore towards Australia, and to tell his tale to Australia, and to such other countries as would listen. [11]
I defy him to show whom he referred to, if not to these high functionaries in the Federal Government. [7]
I scarcely need to say that I consider the military posts and property situated within the States which claim to have seceded as yet belonging to the Government of the United States as much as they did before the supposed secession. [7]
We were beginning to perceive that charity did not consist in dispensing largesse after making a fortune at the expense of one's fellow-men; that there was something still wrong in a government that permits it. [9]

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