What's the difference between government and governmental?

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.

Governmental


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (2) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
  • (3) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
  • (4) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
  • (5) Despite a favourable governmental attitude towards research and effective and functional organizational structures including the South African Medical Research Council, there is a relatively small medical research community and a much less than optimal research effort.
  • (6) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
  • (7) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (8) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
  • (9) These effects of governmental restrictions on abortion do indeed interfere with the obstetrician's basic goal of providing optimal care for the patient and undermine their efforts to improve maternal and infant health.
  • (10) The researchers recommended that governmental vehicles (e.g., military and police) transport pregnant women to a hospital in cases of emergency.
  • (11) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
  • (12) This study should be useful by providing a rational base for governmental policies regarding population, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (13) And secretary of state Hillary Clinton, visiting Hungary in 2011, pleaded for “a real commitment to the independence of the judiciary, a free press, and governmental transparency”.
  • (14) We would be prevented from doing so; we are prevented from doing so.” Describing the situation as agonising, she said: “Whether you are a Syrian NGO [non-governmental organisation] on the frontline in eastern Aleppo being bombed into oblivion, or a UN worker sitting in Damascus or accompanying convoys across conflict lines, we are all really taking risks and being mentally pummelled by some of the positions in which we are put.” The deteriorating situation in Syria and continual bombardment of eastern Aleppo has raised the political stakes to new heights in recent days, with Russia being directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes because of its support for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
  • (15) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
  • (16) Various sources of financing are used together with a considerable increase of private health insurance and a diminishing participation of governmental institutions over the years.
  • (17) "People think the Brotherhood can be dissolved through governmental decisions.
  • (18) But the politics of due governmental process is not so easily disposed of.
  • (19) Some of the money could go to non-governmental organisations.
  • (20) This sense of belonging has nothing to do with fiscal or governmental union and everything to do with proximity, amity and difference.

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