How to use "government" in a sentence

Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to be taken by the President "before he enters on the execution of his office."

During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it - break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere

While the strict legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such offices.

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease

There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is acquiescence on one side or the other.

I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their CONSTITUTIONAL right of amending it, or their REVOLUTIONARY right to dismember or overthrow it.

His duty is to administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.

By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

The government will not assail YOU

YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it

Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone

Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors

'Who said you had to go away? You left me - your grandfather! - to join in those street protests against the government, I suppose

The day of his funeral was arranged for 5 June, and thousands of people saw this as a chance to make a public protest against the king and his government.

The stranger explained in great detail how he used to work for the government in foreign countries and that, now he was retired, he wanted to move to South America with his wife and daughter

The government uses most of the city's energy to build virtual simulations, so that people can experience beautiful places without actually going anywhere

"I heard the government has a new idea - about people living in pods."

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

What's more, there was a force field at the city boundary that was impossible to cross: there were alarms there that sensed your wrist chip before you even got close, and then government agents appeared in seconds to arrest you

Gran had a chip buried under her skin like everyone else, but she wore a bracelet to hide it as a small way of protesting about the government's tight control over everyone.

Studying at home helped with overcrowding, used less energy, and made teaching easier: well, that's what the government said.

The government controls us enough already

I'm just saying - maybe the world out there is not as terrible as the government would like us to believe."

If the government finds out that messages are getting through the force field and passing across the city boundary, there could be big trouble."

They were so close to the pod center that she was worried there might be government agents nearby

The government has lied to us - it's not contaminated like we've been told

We're opposed to the government controlling everyone the way it does."

The government's story about contamination is all a big lie, but it's too dangerous to challenge it, or to talk about this."

And we don't like it when the government develops new kinds of control."

Now, we're looking for people that the government is unlikely to miss

We now have a secret agent, working within the government

But now it seemed an obvious place for the government to bug.

The government is real

There's a group working against the government - a rebellion

We have to learn all about the history of the government and things like that

What if the government was bugging their conversation?

"You're doubting what the government is doing." There was a warning in Tian's voice now

We learn a lot about how the government looks after us

they're teaching him all about obedience and how wonderful the government is

If the government came asking them questions, it would be better, for now, that he knew nothing at all.

"If the government comes here, they won't find anything," said Gran

Everyone knew that the government had cruel and terrible ways of forcing people to speak

When they came out, they would be obedient servants of the government.

She did not belong to the government

Yes, we work for a government agency

"If you're working for a government intelligence agency, then go away and come back with the legal papers," Elliot said

The government is allowed to bend the rules if it wants

Even if the government had established a secret police force, however, why was it so anxious to cover up the true facts of Danny's death? What were they trying to hide about the Sierra tragedy? What really had happened up in those mountains?

While Elliot drove, he told Tina what had happened at his house: the two thugs, their interest in the possibility of Danny's grave being reopened, their admission that they worked for some government agency, the hypodermic syringes...

Besides, we're dealing with a government agency, and government agencies tend to cooperate with one another."

And in a small local election like the one Kennebeck won, stacking the deck would be easy if you had enough money and government muscle behind you."

"What kind of government agency would have the authority to circumvent the law like this? What kind of agency would be empowered to kill innocent civilians who got in its way?"

And most of those remote areas are owned by the federal government

"I just can't believe the government would murder a group of little children just because they accidentally got a glimpse of a new weapon or something."

Even a primarily good government, when it's big enough, has some pretty mean sharks swimming in the darker currents

"The government had to hide it, and so this organization that Kennebeck works for was given responsibility for the cover-up."

Danny survived the accident, but they couldn't let him come home because he'd tell everyone the government was responsible for the deaths of the others, and that would blow their secret military installation wide open."

Many of them had been Presidential appointees, occupying high-level posts in the federal government; a few had served on the President's cabinet, in half a dozen administrations, though none had ever deigned to run for an elective position

Eventually Harry realized that the extreme left and the extreme right shared the same two basic goals: They wanted to make society more orderly than it naturally was, and they wanted to centralize control of the population in a strong government

If there's any government on earth capable of using a weapon like this, it's them - or the North Koreans or the Iraqis

Because its existence must be kept secret, the organization was funded out of misdirected appropriations meant for other government agencies

Lesser amounts, ranging from only one hundred million to as much as half a billion, were secretly extracted from the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and other government bodies on an annual basis.

During his twenties and early thirties, he had labored at a variety of lesser jobs for the government

"Can a couple of people like us really have a chance of winning when we're up against something as big as the government itself?"

"The government wouldn't go to all the trouble of hiding this joint out here just to house a handful of researchers or whatever

At first, I thought the writers had put lampposts on this road, which would make no sense, as it is a secret route through restricted government property

But there was almost nothing to tell people until the government announced that the people of Walton and Weybridge, and all chat district, were pouring along the roads towards London.

At that time there was a strong feeling on the streets that the government should be blamed because they had not destroyed the Martians already.

The government, already falling apart, made one last effort

My brother heard that about half the members of the government had met in Birmingham, in central England, and that enormous amounts of explosive were being prepared to be used in the Midlands

The churches were giving out bread sent to us by the French government, and tired-looking policemen stood at the corners of every street.

Would it really be so dangerous? Doesn't one government car look like another - the hugeness of it, the dark glass, the driver in uniform? She can already see herself stepping out of the car to greet the other girls, who look at her with eyes like knives

'Hmm, when don't I? With the baby coming in a couple of months and the government's new controls on pay

I am going to London next week on government business, so if you bring me the details of the machine, I shall get her the motor.'

I have got you one of the government houses.'

He may be able to speak to someone in your government office so that after the baby is born you can keep your job there.'

In a short while, Mercy left the house to go and live in the government house that Mensar-Arthur had managed to get for her.

Human rights mean that people are not put into prison because they do not agree with the government, and that people are not hurt when they are in prison

Later, Iran's government stopped women from becoming judges.

She did this because the government would not give women the right to vote

She became the world's first woman prime minister, and she led her country's government three times

Her father worked for the government, but he was also an athlete

Since 1980, in Iran, the government has not allowed women into stadiums to see all-men sports

They took the government of Zimbabwe to court