(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.
Whig
Definition:
(n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
(n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
(n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
(n.) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) As EP Thompson noted in the final chapter of Whigs and Hunters, where he reviewed the history of law in Britain, no complex society can operate without a system of law even if there is a “whole inheritance” of struggle about what that is and how it should be applied.
(2) "The chapter which primes applicants' knowledge about history is permeated with the sort of Whig views of the world-civilising mission of the British realm which have encouraged generations of Etonians and Harrovians to play their role in the great imperial enterprise.
(3) A New York Times article from 1973, "Freedom of Expression Taking Hold in Liberia" , describes Porte's lonely crusade under the True Whig regime as coming to an end.
(4) As 1066 and All That put it: "The Whigs said George I was king."
(5) Seven strains were made with pairwise combinations of whiA and B mutations with whiG, H and I mutations and with each other.
(6) Fillmore – an unmemorable man with a memorable name who often finds himself on lists of America’s worst presidents – was tapped to run by the Whig Party to run for vice president in 1848 because, as a moderate northerner, his presence was supposed to balance war hero Zachary Taylor, a slave-holding southerner, on the top of the ticket.
(7) High copy number of an intact whiG gene caused sporulation in vegetative hyphae that are usually fated to lyse without sporulating.
(8) After The Making came Whigs & Hunters , a book on the Black Acts – the notorious Georgian legislation that criminalised not only the killing of deer, but also any suspicious activity that might hint at the intention to kill deer.
(9) Fillmore’s most notable act as president was throwing his weight behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, which simultaneously angered northern liberal Whigs as well as some southerners in slave-holding states.
(10) However, the introduction of many copies of a sigma 28-dependent promoter from B. subtilis into S. coelicolor reduced sporulation, suggesting partial sequestration of the whiG gene product by the foreign promoter sequences.
(11) There were 60 family members and servants living in the house in the early 17th century, and it was later home to Charles Watson-Wentworth, a British Whig politician who served twice as prime minister.
(12) In the mycelial prokaryote S. coelicolor, whiG is a gene dispensable for growth but needed for the earliest stages of spore formation in aerial hyphae.
(13) We propose that the level of whiG sigma factor is crucial in determining the developmental fate of hyphae.
(14) Transcription from P1 and P2 was observed during surface culture in strains carrying mutations blocking aerial mycelium formation (bldA and bldB) or the formation of spores in aerial mycelium (whiA, whiB, whiG, and whiH).
(15) Nucleotide sequencing indicates that whiG encodes an RNA polymerase sigma factor highly similar to the motility sigma factor (sigma 28) of B. subtilis.
(16) With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, many Democrats and Whigs grew disgusted with how partisan politics was ruining America and many bolted to the Know Nothings because, while they were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, they were also anti-slavery.
(17) Whig leaders began openly negotiating with William of Orange, whose wife, Mary, was second in line to the throne, a Stuart but a Protestant.
(18) The double mutants always closely resembled one of the single mutant parent strains in morphology and a consistent scheme of epistasis was obtained--whiG being epistatic to whiH, A, B and I; whiH to whiA, B and I; and whiA or B to whiI.
(19) The towering historian of the left EP Thompson agreed with him, and conjured a pitiless elite of aristocratic Whigs, unrelenting in the exhibition of authority.
(20) Burke was, of course, a Whig rather than a Tory: Dr Emily Jones’s new monograph, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, adroitly traces the ways in which later Tories rewrote Burke’s wider legacy to foreground the revolutions, claiming him as one of their own.