military government

• “Reconstruction Acts of Congress of March, 1867, the Humphreys government was abolished and a temporary military government established in its place until the Reconstruction government was established, under the Acts of Congress, with James L. Alcorn as governor, who was inaugurated 10 March, 1870.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “As the military government settled into city quarters—Arnold took residence in a slate-roof mansion vacated by the British general Henry Clinton—Morris got back on the road to Manheim.”

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

• “But this fell short of the development plan target of 4.8%, and the federal military government FMG decided that additional incentives and motivation were required.”

  Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies

• “Occupation Planning Staff Study," which forecast the withdrawal to Germany of about eighty divisions (of which half were to be demobilised); the military government would keep at its disposal strong mobile forces in the principal industrial and communication centres; each group, besides its normal occupation duties, would be able to send out fast battle groups into the unoccupied hinterland to destroy any attempts at resistance before these could become dangerous.”

  Barbarossa

• “One of his antagonists was Colonel Moses Hazen, a Canadian who had made a distinguished place for himself in the service of the colonies and had played a positive role in the military government of Montreal.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “The GBA started off as a subsidiary of the Four-Year-Plan, but soon grew to be a sovereign power in its own right, competing with the rival authorities of SS, Ostministerium, and military government to multiply the administrative chaos which prevailed in the whole territory, and whose overworked relief valve was the suffering of the Russian people.”

  Barbarossa

• “Since the military government of Old Ethshar relied heavily on wizardry, while their Northern enemies did not, the spell was deemed to be not only useless, militarily speaking, but exceedingly dangerous, and accordingly it was vigorously suppressed.”

  With a Single Spell

• “In April last I proposed to the Council to adopt a plan by which a corps of negroes should be organized and attached to each regiment or brigade, as axemen and spadesmen, to be placed under military government and orders in service.”

  Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862.

• “On 27th July the military government issued a proclamation calling up a hundred thousand civilians forthwith for work on fortifica - tions, and still greater dislocation of the Home Army was threatened by a Russian broadcast of”

  Barbarossa

• “During the period of military government in the South, a prison system known as convict leasing was established in this and other southern states, and was continued in Mississippi until 1890, when it was abolished and the present system was adopted of working the prisoners on state lands at agricultural pursuits for the exclusive benefit of the state, and under exclusive official control.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

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