Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of government.
Examples
“That these governments set as rulers or governors in this church, are set there not by man, but by God himself; _God hath set in the Church -- governments_.”
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
“That Paul speaks of governments that the church had not, because in the enumeration, ver. 29, 30, he omits none but _helps_ and _governments_.”
“If that happens, I fear we're in for a decade of bouncing between one term governments until someone comes along with enough vision and force of personality to do what's really needed.”
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
“In fact, what, what we call our governments are vampire states.”
“Those are pretty good numbers, but they are not good enough and, looking ahead, one of the challenges, the greatest challenge facing Canadians and their governments is the changing nature of work.”
“The effort puts Britain at the core of the debate over how fast, and how deep, to cut the crushing levels of public debt racked up by governments from the United States to Europe and now viewed by leading economists as one of the greatest threats to the global economy.”
The Washington Post: Britain plans $131 billion in spending cuts by 2015
“But the ostrich policy that was so far adopted by successive Canadian governments is no longer feasible.”
The Huffington Post: Maher Arar: Omar Khadr: America's Injustice, Canada's Shame
“Yep, and especially in governments and other ultra-large organizations.”
“No one in the Union can appoint themselves as administrator and speak in the name of governments elected by and made of the people of Europe.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fresh Worries of Recession Grip Europe
“Her death is understood to have been a murder, though neither the US nor Benin governments have officially declared it so.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘governments’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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How many _____ does it take to change...
egotists, marxists, economists, zen buddhists, psychiatrists, jewish mothers, feminists, lawyers, hegelians, mystery writers, dull people, liberals and 31 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for governments.
gangerh Why do we need governments when we've enough low energy in light bulbs? Sep 7, 2009
bilby Why do they need the bulbs if they're already incandescent? Sep 5, 2009
gangerh Answer: 1. Then 27 governments do what they're told. (450 million EU consumers, incandescent with rage, are now banned from buying 100w incandescent light bulbs ). Sep 5, 2009