(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.
Liberty
Definition:
(n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.
(n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.
(n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.
(n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.
(n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.
(n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.
(n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.
(n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.
(n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.
(n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(3) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(4) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(5) Graphic photos of Said's injuries circulated online and became a rallying cause for activists opposed to Egypt's 29-year-old emergency law, which suspends many basic civil liberties and provides effective immunity for the security services before the courts.
(6) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(7) Other speakers included Shami Chakrabarti , director of the human rights group Liberty, and the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn who is on the Commons justice select committee.
(8) So in trying to harmonise with the original rather than transcribe every last word of it, certain liberties have been taken.
(9) At the start of the year, Liberty was believed to have around $3bn in the bank.
(10) The new framework will include “strong protections for privacy and civil liberties”, according to the White House.
(11) The company launched in 1995 with an idea for a range of “colonial-inspired” tapestry bags, designed by Cox and sold by Liberty, Harrods and the General Trading Company.
(12) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
(13) Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.
(14) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(15) We should also create a new, beefed-up body including more independent people to scrutinise what is happening, based on Obama's privacy and civil liberties oversight board .
(16) They will begin next week at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey; Dulles, outside Washington DC; Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
(17) In November Inglis gave a wide-ranging talk at the University of Pennsylvania Law School , in which he invited a student critic of the NSA to become a civil liberties officer at the agency.
(18) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(19) Individualism – the assertion of every person’s claim to maximised private freedom and the unrestrained liberty to express autonomous desires … became the leftwing watchword of the hour.” The result was an astonishing liberation: from millennia of social, gender and sexual control by powerful, mostly elderly men.
(20) Corinna Ferguson, legal officer at Liberty, said: "Yet again, the court of appeal has sent the strongest signal to the security establishment that it cannot play fast and loose with the rule of law.