8 sentences with 'government'

Example sentences and phrases with the word government and other words derived from it.

« After acknowledging that government funds had been used to cover "indirect research costs," including expenses for napkins, tablecloths and a dinner held at his residence, he declared: »
« In 1989, the Junta de Andalucía, the autonomous government, declared 49,000 hectares adjacent to Doñana a "natural park," doubling the "protected" area. »
« "The government would deny the accusations again and again, but we kept coming back to them," he recalls. »
« When a government official rejected the claim that Doñana's water reserves were severely depleted, Carlos presented a report from the government's own hydrologists confirming his claim. »
« The state government made room for Houston's offenders by tripling the capacity of its prisons and increasing minimum prison sentences for murder, rape and robbery. »
« The guerrilla advocates a coalition government and, eventually, free elections. Had this plan succeeded, Savimbi could have become the first president of free Angola. He was shot in 2002. »
« In practice, this involved the collection of food and wealth by the government of each city-state, which it used to "pay" (sometimes in daily allotments of food and beer) the labourers charged with building walls, roads, temples and palaces. »
« This in turn created a huge surplus of wealth for the royal government, which had the right to tax and redistribute it (as did the states of Mesopotamia to the east). »
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