What's the difference between government and omnium?

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.

Omnium


Definition:

  • (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was not linked to Sutton’s departure in any way, or reported outside specialist media, but the head of the Manxman’s Dimension Data squad, Brian Smith, quit on Tuesday, and with his successor yet to be named it remains unclear what the fallout will be for Cavendish’s quest for the solitary men’s omnium place.
  • (2) He could be favoured by a change in format in the track omnium, now heavily weighted towards the points race, a discipline that suits Cavendish.
  • (3) The new man at the helm at British Cycling , Shane Sutton, has the Manxman on his shortlist of possible candidates, and told the Guardian: “He has the potential to win the omnium.
  • (4) Later on in the day the omnium started with the 800m handicap.
  • (5) On the same website, the trainer of the omnium specialist Bryan Coquard backed up the British response that their secret is due to the way they roll out the best equipment at the vital moment.
  • (6) Jordi Cuixart, the president of Omnium, a separatist group, told the crowd teeming with pro-independence flags that he had a message for the Spanish state.
  • (7) Ed Clancy meanwhile, also got off to the perfect start in the omnium, scoring maximum points in the first event, the flying 250m time trial, where he registered a personal best.
  • (8) So I'm just writing to thank the entire Guardian team for keeping me informed, entertained and (especially when it comes to the rules of the men's Omnium) educated, in the absence of the BBC coverage.
  • (9) As late as last September she was winning national titles on the track but she faced an obvious dilemma: positions in the team pursuit squad were hard to guarantee and Laura Trott was rapidly emerging as the team's strongest omnium rider.
  • (10) Cavendish has said he feels he could win the omnium, but is undecided .
  • (11) However, there was a non-championship open event called an "omnium" which included an 800m handicap on the same day, which I was allowed to ride.
  • (12) Alongside the sprint conundrum, there are the small matters of managing Sir Bradley Wiggins’s return to the track midway through next year – with the foundation of “Team Wiggo” to include the bulk of his fellow potential team pursuiters – and persuading Mark Cavendish or Ben Swift to take a brief break from professional road racing to ride the omnium.
  • (13) On Sunday Clancy will complete the omnium with the scratch race, individual pursuit and kilometre time trial; the latter two are as much his strong suit as the flying lap, meaning that he can look to move up the table, although the seven-point margin to the leader, Bryan Coquard of France, may prove too much.

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