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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
governmental
adjective
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governmental authority
▪ Their failure undermined governmental authority.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ Are there more representative ways in which public sentiments regarding governmental action may be expressed? 2.
▪ Such limits might be acceptable if the only persons entitled to challenge governmental action were persons directly affected.
activity
▪ This project has examined the current level of industrial and governmental activity on the area of clean technology.
▪ Such tribunals, generally deriving from statutory provisions, had multiplied as the range of governmental activity spread.
agency
▪ In line with the services provided by other governmental agencies much local government activity occurs through the medium of discretionary powers.
▪ Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose, certain similarities exist in their forms.
▪ The potential for a comparable coalition of non-governmental agencies is there.
▪ You manage a telephone switchboard for a large governmental agency.
▪ Eurocurrency business is in very substantial sums and also often involves governmental or governmental agency transactions.
▪ The Bank lends to governments and governmental agencies, although private organizations can borrow if the national government guarantees the loan.
authority
▪ By contrast a municipal corporation was a public governmental authority with administrative duties owed to all the inhabitants of its area.
▪ The life. history material, consequently, can provide us with reports of personal experience at the hands of governmental authority.
▪ I have already set out the dangers of allowing a governmental authority to have the right to sue.
▪ A state in which the police and other governmental authorities are heavily in female hands would not last a week.
▪ But once transferred, there will be no direct responsibility for their exercise to a higher governmental authority.
▪ The feelings that people have toward governmental authorities may be inferred from their expectations of how they will be treated by them.
▪ But the Detroit metropolitan area, comprising various cities in three surrounding counties, already has regional governmental authorities.
▪ These people are alienated in their expectations of treatment at the hands of governmental authority and police.
body
▪ The vesting of such powers in governmental bodies was certainly not new.
▪ Social studies, as they explore what governmental body is responsible for the quality of their water?
▪ This is because, as we have seen, judicial review is not restricted in its scope to governmental bodies.
▪ Chief executives are officials who run governmental bodies that formulate and enforce laws.
▪ In some respects, governmental bodies enjoy the same freedom of action.
control
▪ With governmental control of the food supply, railroads, and fuel, states' rights were virtually nonexistent in some areas.
decision
▪ The people are being asked to give their own judgment before major governmental decisions are made.
entity
▪ Leal theorizes it might be possible to eliminate the $ 60-million annual electrical bill local governmental entities must pay.
▪ Perhaps the biggest reason was the de facto revenue raid on the treasuries of other governmental entities the project would entail.
institution
▪ More generally, the instinctive drive for self-preservation led to the emergence of a range of public and governmental institutions.
▪ Secondly, this book is primarily about constitutional and administrative law and about governmental institutions.
▪ Only when cultures are well developed is there enough social trust to support commercial and governmental institutions.
official
▪ Table 111. 9 reports the frequency of expectations of considerate treatment at the hands of governmental officials and the police.
▪ Despite the enormous casualty figure, a major concern of governmental officials was that insurance cover property losses.
▪ I have spoken very often to governmental officials, but they take no interest in this town.
organisations
▪ Churches, business, non-governmental organisations all had their place at the table.
▪ However, non-governmental organisations said that little progress over debt was made at the Washington meeting.
▪ Globalisation has spawned its own opposition in the form of non-governmental organisations.
▪ National governments Include official and quasi-official governmental organisations.
organizations
▪ All of them are an attempt to activate non-governmental organizations and, through them, civil society in the south.
policy
▪ Once approved, these are used as the basis for governmental policy review.
▪ For example, he introduced governmental policies that undercut traditional Confucian values.
▪ The plans to reverse decades of governmental policy without benefit of public hearings and substantive dialogue have produced little.
power
▪ Elections are also about government and governmental power.
▪ The only governmental power the Commission possesses is the power to make law; and it is not the Congress.
▪ Hence self-restraint of the ruler must be reinforced by effective institutions: restraints upon the arbitrary exercise of governmental power.
▪ It violated the essence of the principle of the separation of governmental powers.
▪ In the United Kingdom there is no codified constitution expressly imposing limits on governmental power.
▪ Two-Party Systems A two-party system is characterized by the alternation in governmental power of two major political parties.
▪ Is governmental power limited in other ways?
▪ Many states become federations to distribute governmental power where there is a huge area to be governed.
structure
▪ So also did the governmental structures of the Merovingian kingdom.
▪ This required careful and delicate safeguards that would be built into the governmental structure and become an integral part of it.
unit
▪ To provide financial information useful for determining and predicting the economic condition of the governmental unit and changes therein.
▪ Similarly, financial administration is receiving increased attention by governmental units at all levels.
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▪ And thirdly, international funding through international, governmental and non-governmental agencies.
▪ Can teachers use governmental immunity as a defense against negligence?
▪ Eurocurrency business is in very substantial sums and also often involves governmental or governmental agency transactions.
▪ Since the budgets of all governmental agencies have the same general purpose, certain similarities exist in their forms.
▪ Such tribunals, generally deriving from statutory provisions, had multiplied as the range of governmental activity spread.
▪ The ultimate decisions will be taken at governmental, even presidential, level.
▪ Throughout this paper 1 have stressed similarities between Bentham's Panopticon proposals and current governmental advice on energy conservation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Governmental

Governmental \Gov"ern*men"tal\, a. [Cf. F. gouvernemental.] Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
governmental

1774, from government + -al (1). Related: Governmentally. A Middle English word in the same sense was gubernatif (late 14c.).

Wiktionary
governmental

a. 1 Relating to a government 2 Relating to governing.

WordNet
governmental

  1. adj. of or relating to the governing authorities; "the core of a governmental system"; "public confidence and governmental morale"

  2. dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state; "governmental policy"

Usage examples of "governmental".

But if the governmental systems are providing justice and protecting equity, revolutions can be achieved through talk, not violence.

WMD, no small concern in a nation that had once amassed a considerable arsenal of chemical weapons, biological agents, and Scud missiles, and was not now a model of governmental organization.

In determining what it may do in seeking assistance from another branch, the extent and character of that assistance must be fixed according to common sense and the inherent necessities of the governmental co-ordination.

It had in fact provided other methods of dealing with such situations, in the elaboration of which it had declined repeatedly to authorize governmental seizures of property to settle labor disputes.

Diderots and the Voltaires from spreading emancipating ideas among the people, so all the existing governmental forces will not prevent the Reclus, the Darwins, the Spencers, the Ibsens, the Mirbeaus, from spreading the ideas of justice and liberty which will annihilate the prejudices that hold the mass in ignorance.

Merely by cutting the gemot leaders on each continent off from those on all the other land masses, the Sealons had managed to paralyze the already ineffectual Trellisane governmental structure.

The refit of the Hawkbill had been a major accomplishment in this endeavor: the submarine had taken on an impressive array of sonar, seismic equipment, and a battery of other electronics intended for use by academic and governmental researchers.

Roman law was the best available ideological weapon with which to confront papal hierocratic doctrine, this system became the natural concern of laymen involved in generating an embryonic political theory to refute the claims of papal governmental thought.

The first axis of transformation involves the nature of the mixture in the constitution-a passage from the ancient and modern model of a mixtum of separate bodies or functions to a process of the hybridization of governmental functions in the current situation.

The only homes he had ever known were governmental institutions and the octangular sleep tubes of Common Ground.

I am sorry I had to pay you in fifties but I never bother with oncers, too plebian, too reminiscent of governmental standard allowances, you understand.

Adamus was Raynes Oceanic Resources vice president for governmental relations.

With mammoth government contracts in the offing, Weinberg had no trouble converting the Business Advisory Council of leading businessmen into an agency for helping governmental leaders plan the policies for war and for the post-war period.

States and the National Government are regarded as mutually complementary parts of a single governmental mechanism all of whose powers are intended to realize the current purposes of government according to their applicability to the problem in hand.

It may also empower courts of bankruptcy to entertain petitions by taxing agencies or instrumentalities for a composition of their indebtedness where the State has consented to the proceeding and the federal court is not authorized to interfere with the fiscal or governmental affairs of the petitioner.