What's the difference between federal and reichstag?

Federal


Definition:

  • (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.

Reichstag


Definition:

  • (n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the close of the session, hundreds of MPs were seen jostling for taxis outside the Reichstag building, impatient to return to their interrupted summer holidays and hoping that they were free of the Greek crisis for the time being.
  • (2) Among the US supplies on board are spare parts for the station’s environmental control and life support system, backup spacewalk hardware, and crew clothing, all of which are replaceable.” Roscosmos space agency said earlier this month that the ship would also carry a copy of the Soviet Victory Banner: the flag three Red Army soldiers raised over the Reichstag building in Berlin on 1 May 1945.
  • (3) Foster's has more than 50 projects on site across five continents, including Apple's campus in California and Bloomberg's London headquarters, and has in the past been behind a host of big projects abroad including the Berlin Reichstag, airports at Beijing and Kuwait and the HSBC building in Hong Kong.
  • (4) And of course at the heart of this, the Reichstag bunker of socialism, is the National Health Service.” At the Conservative political action conference in the same year he said: “This socialist government wastes money like you can’t imagine.
  • (5) Strolling through the debris, Hans-Peter Koopmann, who manages publicity for the development, points out sights on the horizon: "That's the Reichstag, there's the Victory column, and from this angle you can look straight into Angela Merkel's living room."
  • (6) He is an artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and for siting thousands of coloured umbrellas across valleys in Japan and America.
  • (7) A Red Army soldier who appears in a historic photograph helping hoist a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died, aged 93.
  • (8) Many buildings in Paris were destroyed by fires started in the fighting that accompanied the 1871 commune, while later the Nazis used the burning of the Reichstag in 1932 – a fire whose cause is still subject to fierce debate – as a pretext to smash civil liberties.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Germany’s Reichstag politicians across all parties say an EU without Britain is a dreadful prospect.
  • (10) Those who have the privilege to take advantage of that – it’s obvious that it’s an enriching thing.” Berlin v London Berlin Facebook Twitter Pinterest Norman Foster’s Reichstag dome at dusk.
  • (11) Several German papers are speculating whether this may be situated in the US embassy, located next to the Brandenburg Gate and close to the Reichstag building where the German parliament holds its sessions.
  • (12) "It takes me back to when I used to go with my mother to the Reichstag in the days after the war and people were selling watches and coffee beans on the black market in an attempt to survive," she says, giving only her first name, Isabel.
  • (13) At the Reichstag of Regensburg the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina was declared empire law in 1532.
  • (14) Right at the heart of the modern government quarter, for example, an EU-directive-lob from the Reichstag, I find the Parlament der Bäume (parliament of trees, see below), a DIY ensemble of memorial stones, graffitied wall remnants and flourishing foliage that’s still run by its (now-octogenarian) founder, the artist and activist Ben Wagin.
  • (15) And think twice if you are contemplating describing a sneaky political ploy as akin to the Reichstag fire (in which, it is claimed, the Nazis burned down the German parliament building and fingered the communists for the crime), or an official attack as resembling Kristallnacht (the Nazi-led persecution of Jews across Germany in 1938).
  • (16) The lavish commemorations culminated in a joint session of parliament in the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house, to which the entire 577-strong French National Assembly was invited.
  • (17) He and his family had fled Germany in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and settled in Denmark, where Brecht wrote the 24 short plays that make up Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.
  • (18) as the original hammer-and-sickle flag flown from the Reichstag was shot down by German snipers.
  • (19) Late in 1917 the German Reichstag passed a law obliging all available males between 17 to 60 to work in arms factories.

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