(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.
Treasury
Definition:
(n.) A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
(n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
(n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
(n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."
(n.) A treasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(2) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(3) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
(4) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(5) The Treasury has also earmarked £3bn in "underspends" by departments that have cut more rapidly than planned, to be put to use.
(6) He served as financial secretary to the Treasury between 1994 and 1995, then as transport secretary for two years.
(7) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(8) Zoopla, the property website, has warned that Brexit would reverse the gains in house prices made over the past five years, citing Treasury research.
(9) Nurses, police and other public sector workers should not necessarily expect a 1% pay rise, the chief secretary to the Treasury has said.
(10) The prime minister said that while he was prepared to organise the extraordinary Treasury briefing, he was not prepared to release the government’s independent advice for the public or parliament to justify the rise.
(11) Sir James Crosby, the chief executive until 2006, was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority after the Treasury select committee produced allegations by a whistleblower that the bank was "going too fast".
(12) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
(13) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
(14) Freedom of information documents obtained as part of the investigation show that the recently departed leader of the City corporation, Stuart Fraser, had contact with the chancellor, George Osborne, and other senior Treasury ministers and officials 22 times in the 14 months up to March this year.
(15) Inflation is down by more than a half from its peak," the Treasury said in a statement.
(16) Mark Hellowell, lecturer in global health policy at Edinburgh University and an adviser to the Treasury select committee inquiry into PFIs, said: "There are some really significant risks to affordability here."
(17) Treasury sources said concerns over the state of the box were justified.
(18) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
(19) Any further sales will be subject to market conditions and ensuring value for money,” the Treasury said.
(20) The Treasury was adamant last night that this would not be the impact at an industry level and produced figures that showed, for instance, in 2014-15, the corporation tax costs being £0.4bn, compared with a bank levy yield of £2.4bn.