gov.
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governor.
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governor.
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government.
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“U.S. gov. employees have been instructed to avoid the area until further notice,” according to the statement, which did not describe the nature of the protest.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
"Inaleinable rights"; gov. power = people power; Parliament ≠ American people; lots of grievances!
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2017
The federal deficit measures the net flow of money from the federal gov. to people, businesses and state & local govs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person ...
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2011
S., gov. of Kansas, 117 ff; his house burned, 119.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his cabinet leaders also have been calling on the public to speak out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In his postmeeting news conference, Gov. Kazuo Ueda expressed growing concern about upside inflation risks and raised the possibility of accelerating the rate-increase cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Neither Michigan Sen. Gary Peters nor Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—the latter Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s first attempted recruit for the Senate race—would have endorsed in the race unless they felt they had to.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators have been working behind closed doors to address the state’s escalating cost of wildfires, including those caused by the utilities, The Times reported last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Carlos: Mom says they won’t buy me one until I’m 18, because she thinks the Gov. wouldn’t challenge an adult’s as much.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"Somaliland gov has agreed to an unconditional cease-fire tonight despite past attacks by militias," Somaliland's defence minister Abdiqani Mahamoud Ateye wrote on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023
That new-hookups moratorium, the gov insists, “is either a falsified device or a lack of competence.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
Can’t call it an official wedding until the gov reopens, so until then, I leave you with this: we closed out 2018 with a really really really good party with those we love most.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019
Get in line gov, we all need more intelligence and memory.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
He’d a rose in his button-hole, and he took it out and gov it her, and he säa, ‘Yeou’ll like to hev it, for that cum up from Suffolk this mornin’.’
From Two Suffolk Friends by Groome, Francis Hindes
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