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French brothers-in-arms, the Republican Government, in recognition of your efforts and your attachment to the Allied cause, considers it just and necessary to proclaim _the right of your nation to its independence and to recognise publicly and officially the National Council as the supreme organ of its general interests and the first step towards a future Czecho-Slovak Government_.
Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929
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I was a Commissar of the Provisional Government attached to the General Staff, but in no sense a member of the Government
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We regret infinitely that the invited comrades refused; we consider their refusal inadmissible for revolutionists and champions of the working-class; we are willing at any time to include the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in the Government; but we declare that, as the party of the majority at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, we are entitled and BOUND before the people to form a Government .
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'We know, and you men know ----' the speaker nailed her advantage, 'that even the Government that's being forced to become a model employer where men are concerned, the very _Government_ is responsible for sweating thousands of women in State employments!
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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Constitution, upon the creation of the only sovereign Government in this Union, the _Government of the Union_, she transfers to that sovereign her infant navy; she relinquishes her only attribute of sovereignty -- if such it be -- to the United States, and merges herself with her sister States into that Union of States which has hitherto been our boast and pride, as well as the admiration of the world.
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In the progressive growth of the Government of the United States in power, splendor, patronage, and consideration abroad, men have been led to exalt the place of the _Government_ above that of the _States_ which
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Jefferson Davis 1848
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At half-past six Lord John returned from the House of Commons, and reported that two very important events had taken place: the one that upon his making his statement to the House that the Government had resigned, that Lord Stanley had been sent for, had declared _his inability then to form a Government_ (words agreed upon between
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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Congress, the party in Government, is also being criticized, especially the Gandhi family scion-Rahul Gandhi.
Global Voices in English » Indian Elections 2009: Allegations and Concerns of The Common People 2009
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Smaller Government is a code word for "Coporate Government".
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Ethics in Government is more important than parading one's religion before the nation.
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