national unity government

noun

1. a government formed by a coalition of parties, esp in time of national emergency

Example Sentences

The golfers, along with his white agriculture minister, himself from an opposition party which is part of the national unity government, were there, at least in part, as a shield - a kind of diplomatic golden dome if you will, and it worked.

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The National Unity Government, which represents the ousted civilian administration, said that its armed forces would begin a two-week pause in "offensive military operations, except for defensive actions" in areas affected by the earthquake from Sunday.

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The coalition is a move to the political centre, because the ANC’s left-wing and populist breakaway parties rejected the invitation to join a national unity government.

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Aung Kyaw Moe, a Rohingya who is deputy minister for human rights in the resistance movement’s shadow National Unity Government, wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday that Buthidaung had been burned to “a pile of ash” and that its residents had fled to rice fields outside of town.

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Thirty-three people, including three 17-year-old boys, two older people and three carpenters from a nearby village, were killed Saturday in an army raid on Let Htoke Taw, said a local administrator loyal to the opposition National Unity Government who managed to escape from the village.

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