1: opposition to one in authority or dominance 2 a: open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government b: an instance of such defiance or resistance.
What this means for Mr. Obama is that an anxious populace is now less likely to see his clash with BP as an instance of government's standing up to a venal corporation, but rather as an instance of both sprawling institutions having once again failed to protect them.
The Copenhagen Accord, agreed to by a few dozen heads of government, for instance, has an uncertain status.
Your own government, for instance, only a few years ago finished a new embassy building in Rio, and the move is bound to be a dislocation, even at best.
The Indian government, for instance, tasked a high-level committee with recommending a broad but flexible policy framework and country-specific plans to engage the estimated 20 million Indians abroad.
The British government, for instance, wants an external review of the way the commission handles money, and an overhaul of grades, pay scales and disciplinary procedures for civil servants.
The Italian government, for instance, imposes a heavy burden on society because the politicians who run it are mainly concerned with extracting rent rather than providing public services.
The U.S. government, for instance, sponsored a systematic program of aerodynamic research under the aegis of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was to yield enormous dividends in aircraft performance through drag-reduction, engine-cooling, and airfoil technologies.
America's government, for instance, needs a medium-term plan for deficit reduction, but cutting back spending viciously in the short term at a time of private-sector retrenchment would be a mistake.Third, the best way to ease the pain of deleveraging is with an export-led boom.
It also wanted to have measures in place to deal with pseudonymous users in the case of a government subpoena, for instance.
But when white people are locked up for substantive crimes — setting fire to 100 acres of land owned by the government, for instance — that's an infringement of rights they believe they should have.
