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Example sentences for "governmental"

Lexicographically close words:
governesses; governest; governeth; governing; government; governments; governmint; governo; governor; governorates
  1. The Finns cannot, by any governmental metamorphosis, be transformed into Russians, and their land will still retain its individuality.

  2. Why was the one a stickler for centralized governmental power, and the other champion of the rights of individual States, and why was each cock-sure of his ground of contention under the Constitution?

  3. Nothing short of a thorough governmental housecleaning of such will meet the issue as the government has allowed it to be presented by them.

  4. Clay was boastfully and domineeringly sure of the necessity of applying to actual governmental work the economic theories that formed the chief stock in trade of his party.

  5. The revenue derived from all sources, including these sales of public lands, had for some years been much in excess of the governmental expenses, and a surplus had accumulated in the treasury.

  6. Much maudlin nonsense has been written about the governmental treatment of the Indians, especially as regards taking their land.

  7. The distinguishing feature of our American governmental system is the freedom of the individual; it is quite as important to prevent his being oppressed by many men as it is to save him from the tyranny of one.

  8. Gradually the people came to lose confidence in the legislative body and to put their trust more in the Executive or else reserved governmental powers to themselves.

  9. Hand in hand with these experiments in governmental mechanisms for the growing cities went a rapidly increasing expenditure of public funds.

  10. The governmental framework of the American city is based on the English system as exemplified in the towns of Colonial America.

  11. Its principal feature is the rapid spread of the Galveston or Commission form of government and of its modification, the City Manager plan, the aim of which is to centralize governmental authority and to entice able men into municipal office.

  12. It does not centre now upon questions of governmental structure or of the distribution of governmental powers.

  13. We have a great program of governmental assistance ahead of us in the co-operative life of the nation; but we dare not enter upon that program until we have freed the government.

  14. I agree that as a nation we are now about to undertake what may be regarded as the most difficult part of our governmental enterprises.

  15. He was a professor of both law and philosophy in the University until he resigned because of governmental injustice to a colleague.

  16. Meanwhile reinforcements came from Spain; this time as before, not a large number, being only about twelve hundred men, but enough materially to aid the governmental army, and to strengthen its morale.

  17. This would preclude the chance of such a disaster as the Cardenas expedition, and the Cubans, uncowed by the presence of large bodies of governmental soldiery, would hasten to the aid of Lopez.

  18. To bring this about should be the aim of every Communist who desires the happiness of mankind more than the punishment of capitalists and their governmental satellites.

  19. It is evident that the recall affords opportunities for governmental pressure, but I had no chance of finding out whether it is used for this purpose.

  20. The Government represents the interests of the urban and industrial population, and is, as it were, encamped amid a peasant nation, with whom its relations are rather diplomatic and military than governmental in the ordinary sense.

  21. Out of all this has grown a system painfully like the old government of the Tsar--a system which is Asiatic in its centralized bureaucracy, its secret service, its atmosphere of governmental mystery and submissive terror.

  22. Experience of power is inevitably altering Communist theories, and men who control a vast governmental machine can hardly have quite the same outlook on life as they had when they were hunted fugitives.

  23. In the United States, where fishery science has had the benefit of generous governmental and official support and countenance and so has reached a high level of achievement, Dr.

  24. But, imperfect as such statistics may be, they give us at any rate some insight into the direction of governmental legislation.

  25. At any rate, such an insurrection was anticipated, and the authorities took measures to crush it out, more severe than any such governmental movement has been since the days of the Spanish Inquisition itself.

  26. With this change in governmental affairs, Maria Cristina was allowed to return to Madrid, and she and her daughter, the new queen, Isabella II.

  27. Maria Cristina informed her prime minister that her will was to be law in the matter, and that she was unwilling to allow any sort of governmental interference.

  28. This being the case when the Goths appeared, it was easy for them to start out afresh on their own lines, and all the more so as many of their governmental ideas were peculiarly adapted to the Spanish temperament.

  29. Going to school in France is a governmental affair as all the schools are run by the Government, excepting only the convent schools, where higher education is taught to private pupils.

  30. The entire steel industry in England is under the control of the government, and the sale of steel for any purpose cannot be made without governmental consent.

  31. Araujo will stand out prominently in connection with a governmental creation which has long been needed, and which is already proving thoroughly useful.

  32. And all the reasoning in the world cannot make the man who has outgrown the governmental form of society take part in actions disallowed by his conscience, any more than the full-grown bird can be made to return into the egg-shell.

  33. When this comes to pass, the question whether men are ready to discard the governmental type is solved.

  34. To get rid of governmental violence in a society in which all are not true Christians, will only result in the wicked dominating the good and oppressing them with impunity," say the champions of the existing order of things.

  35. Just as no power in the world can put them back into the shells, so can no power in the world bring men again under the governmental type of society when once they have outgrown it.

  36. It is the same with the question whether the time has come to do away with the governmental type of society and to replace it by a new type.

  37. So that whether governmental violence is suppressed or not, the position of good men, in being oppressed by the wicked, will be unchanged.

  38. Lord Baltimore might still receive quit-rents and customs, but his governmental rights were absorbed into the monarchy.

  39. It was on a side street, and while no one associated it with governmental activity, it was of a size and importance that justified a uniformed attendant in the lobby.

  40. Defiantly, each told himself that he was a free citizen and didn't have to take this from Taber, even if he did represent governmental authority.

  41. As time passed, the interdependence of governmental and ecclesiastical interests began to weaken in the colonies, and there arose among those who represented the new secularizing tendency a distrust of the colleges and their influence.

  42. These public secondary schools met with opposition, however, springing partly from the friends of the academies, and partly from those who held that governmental agency should be restricted to the field of elementary education.

  43. Since the days of Sparta and Rome, there has been no such wonderful governmental disciplinary machine.

  44. If marriage founded on inclination and mutual consent is so often broken surreptitiously or by open divorce, what should we expect amongst persons united and separated by governmental policy?

  45. It follows that a good government, while it justifies this governmental patriotism in its subjects, disallows it in all other men.

  46. Another instance of the results of secrecy in governmental activities!

  47. Thus has been developed one of the most intricately complex governmental systems in the world.

  48. They were animated by a sleepless jealousy of governmental power.

  49. Indeed, it is a serious question with many thoughtful Americans whether the growth of the United States has not put an excessive strain upon its governmental machinery.

  50. Closely allied to this doctrine of limited governmental powers, even by a majority, is the fourth principle of an independent judiciary.

  51. Everywhere the foundations of governmental structures seem to be settling--let us hope and pray upon a surer foundation--and when the seismic convulsion of the world war is taken into account, it is not surprising that this is so.

  52. Constitutions, as governmental panaceas, have come and gone; but it can be said of the American Constitution, paraphrasing the noble tribute of Dr.

  53. The fifth fundamental principle was a system of governmental checks and balances.

  54. Still, one is inclined to think that the fluctuations on the chart fit in very well with what we know from other sources of the temporary effect and subsequent ineffectiveness of these transient eruptions of governmental activity.

  55. It seems that an adequate governmental publication on this subject is now due, and overdue.

  56. The probability is that the earliest state was an unformed one, without governmental or other institutions, and that totemism was one of the first attempts to introduce order into society.

  57. In the Homeric poems and in Hesiod we find a political or governmental organization of the gods which followed the lines of the social organization of the times.

  58. The ancient Heaven and Earth are followed by Kronos,[1244] and he is dethroned by Zeus, who represents governmental order and a higher ethical scheme of society.

  59. This sense of the governmental unity is further developed by the later great poets who infused into it higher and more definite moral elements.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "governmental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; aristocratic; authoritarian; autocratic; autonomous; bureaucratic; civic; civil; constitutional; democratic; despotic; dictatorial; diplomatic; executive; fascist; governmental; gubernatorial; matriarchal; monarchical; national; official; parliamentary; patriarchal; pluralistic; politic; political; public; republican; state; statesmanlike; totalitarian