Word: governability
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...stay with my Army in my country," Leopold replied. "You remain with me to govern...
...Bill which Parliament was about to be asked to approve was technically an extension of one passed Aug. 24, giving the King wide powers to govern by decree in wartime-on advice of his Privy Council (Cabinet members and others appointed by the King). Practically, it gave the Cabinet control of every British asset in toil and treasure to fight the war. Socially and politically it withdrew from the British people the rights of person and property they had wrested from King John at Runnymede 725 years ago, and from the British working class the hard-won reforms...
Herr Hitler also still got some 390,000 tons of Dutch oil, 3.000 tons of tin, large stocks of vegetable oils, whale oil, condensed milk. He appointed his Austrian yes man, Arthur Seyss Inquart, to govern the new prize. He gloated over the new springboard he had for a feat never accomplished, even by Napoleon, since William the Conqueror performed it in 1066: the invasion of Great Britain...
Emerson's post, originally known as the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was created to coordinate the governments of the colonies. The department of State, the War Department, and the Department of the Navy each govern the possessions under their respective jurisdictions...
...that the revolt against conservatism which began in 1931 will last until 1947-48. His qualification: this does not necessarily mean Term III, or even continuance of the Democrats in power; but rather that, no matter who is in office, the "political mood known loosely as New Dealism will govern the conduct of the Government...