Example sentences of "of government by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how does one deal with counterfactuals , that is , what might have happened in the absence of the control of government by the particular party ? |
| 2 | ‘ My lord protector , ’ he said , ‘ you are called upon to assume the reins of government by the loyal citizens of London . |
| 3 | Our focus , then , is on legal control of government by the courts . |
| 4 | We are already at quite a distance from the original simple idea of government by the people . |
| 5 | We do not need to reach firm answers to these questions to see that the realities of British politics — both the process of electing a parliament and the relation of that elected body to those who actually form and control the machinery of state — certainly do not neatly correspond to or embody the original notion of government by the people or the people 's representatives . |
| 6 | The system of the citizens filling offices by random rotation , and of having the right to take part in the assembly , meant that Athens between , say 462 and 322 , came as near as any community ever has to achieving the democratic ideal of government by the people themselves , through citizen participation , rather than the modern substitutes of representation or even delegation . |
| 7 | He rapidly concluded that the classical ideal of government by the people was not only impossible but also undesirable on account of the proven ignorance , irrationality and apathy of the people . |
| 8 | The Libyan leader 's Green Book is distributed as a work of major ideological significance : ‘ Encapsulated within the Green Book is the ideology of the people , of government by the masses for the masses in a true democracy , one which renders obsolete the reactionary twin-sisters of Capitalism and Communism ’ ( no. 41 ) . |
| 9 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |