What's the difference between commissariat and government?

Commissariat


Definition:

  • (n.) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
  • (n.) The body of officers charged with such service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thereafter, followed a series of four reorganizations of the commissariat by the Congress-each disastrously conceived-which brought no relief to the ill-fed soldiers, whose physical condition progressively worsened.
  • (2) There were conflicts, hesitations and contradictions within the avant garde as well, and their supporter in the government was Anatoly Lunacharsky at the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, worked as well.
  • (3) They’re coping somehow so far,” said Ivan Mišković, a spokesman for Serbia’s commissariat for refugees and migration, of the aid workers and authorities on Serbia’s southern border.
  • (4) The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Sheila Fitzpatrick A riveting account of the institution that implemented the cultural and educational policies of the revolution after 1917.
  • (5) A spokeswoman in the Calais police commissariat said she was unable to comment on the allegations of harsh treatment made by the children.
  • (6) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.
  • (7) This work has received decisive assistance from numerous institutions, in particular the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Rockefeller Foundation of New York, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health of the United States, the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, the Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique, and the Depsilonlepsilongation Gepsilonnepsilonrale alpha la Recherche Scientifique et Technique.
  • (8) On 2 January 1946, just before his departure, De Gaulle appointed Monnet to head the Commissariat Général du Plan.
  • (9) At the end of his first year at Cambridge, he threw up his place at Caius college to join the hospital commissariat in the Crimea.
  • (10) A total of 104 men working for the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, all volunteers, were randomly placed into two groups.
  • (11) "There was a tendency to try to export and there was a general feeling of support for Israel," Andre Finkelstein, a former deputy commissioner at France's Atomic Energy Commissariat and deputy director general at the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Avner Cohen, an Israeli-American nuclear historian.

Government


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
  • (n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.
  • (n.) The right or power of governing; authority.
  • (n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.
  • (n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.
  • (n.) Management of the limbs or body.
  • (n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
  • (8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
  • (9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
  • (16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
  • (20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.

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