Sentence examples for ghost government from inspiring English sources

It won't help if the office is run by the governor, since the governor already has considerable control over this ghost government.

It won't help if the office is run by the governor, since the governor already has so much control over this ghost government.

Maybe Obama thinks he's the leader of the Palestinians, but as every Arab knows, except perhaps Mr Abbas, he is the leader of a ghost government, a near-corpse".

My flatmates and I would tune in every week to watch intrepid FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track down assorted aliens, psychics, vampires, ghosts, and government conspiracies.

The Dalai Lama is now in Mussoorie, where he has set up a ghost of a government with 4 of his 6 cabinet members.

Unlike the oil-rich rulers of the Gulf, Ben Ali does not have the money to buy his people's silence with "ghost" jobs as government employees.

Ghost towns, abandoned government headquarters and decomposing train depots – around the world there are still hundreds of these locations; some left to rot because they became too expensive to run, others deserted after ecological disasters - all infected with the sadness of a forgotten former life.

I can stand in the churchyard of St Mary Abbots in Kensington and see round me the ghosts of ancient government.

Global warming could create "ghost states" with governments in exile ruling over scattered citizens and land that has been abandoned to rising seas, an expert said yesterday.

According to François Gemenne, of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris, this could lead to the creation of "ghost states" whose governments-in-exile would rule over scattered citizens and land lost to rising seas.

"They're desperate". Scholars say the layers of hell in the Chinese belief system closely resemble in structure the former levels of imperial government, while ghost hierarchies mirror old bureaucratic rankings headed by a king of ghosts.