(a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
(a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
(a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
(n.) See Federalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Non-essential Federal government services will remain closed until a budget to pay for them has been agreed.
(6) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(7) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(8) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(9) "Greed is not good," said Preet Bharara, the New York federal prosecutor bringing the case.
(10) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(11) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(12) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
(13) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(14) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
(15) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
(16) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(17) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(18) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
(19) Schools that are not in compliance risk losing millions in federal funding.
(20) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
Georgian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.
(a.) Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.
(n.) A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(2) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(3) He fought with the Georgians during the brief war with Russia in 2008 , but was discharged after contracting tuberculosis, and later jailed for gun-running.
(4) The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
(5) In his illuminating and judicious scholarly study of the region, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, Richard Sakwa writes – all too plausibly – that the “Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 was in effect the first of the ‘wars to stop Nato enlargement’; the Ukraine crisis of 2014 is the second.
(6) Gonzalez acknowledged that the term "Russian mafia" was something of a misnomer since the criminal groups sometimes involved Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarussians and Chechens.
(7) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(8) Vastly outnumbered by the Kremlin's ground and air forces, the Georgian government announced it was pulling back its troops to defend the capital, Tbilisi, against a feared Russian onslaught.
(9) 12.31am GMT Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia at a time when that country fought a five-day war with Russia in 2008 over the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, has been pushing for the US to take punitive financial measures against Russia.
(10) HLA-antigens grade I and II were studied by tissue typing in 60 Russians and 40 Georgians suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP), and 40 Georgians with virus myocarditis.
(11) At Easter, Georgian Orthodox leaders said a clause in an anti-discrimination bill guaranteeing equal treatment of LGBT people, required by the EU for closer ties, would legalise "gay propaganda" in a direct threat to dearly-held Georgian values.
(12) Eugene Jaffe • Montana River Trust; Salford Capital Partners Inc • The BVI entity Salford, with disguised ownership, managed £750m of investments in Georgia and Serbia for the Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili.
(13) It was a Georgian property – not a posh house, but it was lovely.
(14) In 2001, Carson and his wife, Lacena “Candy” Carson, placed a substantial share of that wealth in real estate, buying a 48-acre property outside of Baltimore in rural Maryland, that boasted Georgian décor, interior corinthian columns with gold-leaf capitals, a palace staircase, eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
(15) The group Georgia Prospers, of which Moore is a member, includes a range of businesses – from Fortune 500 companies like Delta, Coca-Cola, and Home Depot to smaller ones across the state – in support of “treating all Georgians and visitors fairly”.
(16) The UN rights office said three of the girls said they believed their abusers were members of a Georgian contingent within an EU force, and another girl was allegedly abused by a soldier from another European country that was not named because “additional corroboration is needed” in that case.
(17) However, there was an acrimonious split when Omar al-Shishani , a Georgian-born Chechen who had previously served in the US-trained Georgian army, decided to merge the group with Isis.
(18) The Georgian authorities said the town of Gori, 40 miles north of Tbilisi, had, in effect, fallen to the Russians, who were also advancing from the breakaway province of Abkhazia in the west into territory previously under Georgian control.
(19) The small port is an ordered delight, with Georgian houses lining the harbour.
(20) He had the warmth and emotion of his Georgian roots, and then at least, an uncommon sincerity.