“He agreed to confederation at Aburi, and now he wants one Nigeria with a unitary government, but a unitary government was the very reason that he and his people killed Igbo officers.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He ridiculed them for accepting the wages they did, when their own government, the People’s Government, was in power. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secret police of the Supreme Leader of the new government. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The announcer mentioned international sanctions against Zimbabwe in response to the government’s aid to Congo rebels. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Kenyan government ordered that all refugees stay in camps such as Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my solitude gave me a certain liberty, and I resolved to use it to do something I had been pondering for a long while: begin discussions with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were ushered into a mustard-colored office where Russian doctors, health specialists, and government leaders were waiting for us. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We live under the constant fear of being discovered as supporters of the former government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage prevailed upon the government to divide the land solely among members of the tribe, thereby increasing each individual’s allotment from 160 acres to 657 acres. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The first round of talks with the government was held over three days in early May. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around them, Manhattan stretched out in rowhouses, great majestic cupolas, church steeples, and glowering government domes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Current protocol is that all water from municipal water districts will go to hospitals and government facilities first. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

How people were helpful, and that it felt great to know that I could speak my mind without fear that someone in the government might not approve. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Adams had always supported military preparations more as a diplomatic maneuver to impress the French government of American resolve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During this time, the government took another action that added fuel to the flames. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, Vuyisile Mini, who years later was hanged by the government for political crimes, led the group in singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Lewis Powell had not wandered into the government’s hands this night, he might have escaped Washington and vanished from history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his government have not been captured. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, everyone understood that he was working for the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The original word, controller, is more likely to be used in business, and the fancier one, comptroller, in government. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby didn’t want to write letters or receive them, for fear of being tracked by the U.S. government, which was attempting to arrest him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the newspapers, university lecturers listed their complaints, the agreements that were trampled in the dust by government men whose own children were schooling abroad. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But instead, all the ignoramuses in government do is lie and steal. A number of my students joined the group that went to Lagos this morning to demonstrate, you know.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We finish lunch, and I take my government final. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

On government forms, she noted at least twice that she was “co-author with William F. Friedman of numerous cipher books,” by which she meant the pamphlets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Seven years later, when the North Korean government launched a disastrous currency reform that impoverished and enraged tens of thousands of traders, the news was reported within hours by Free North Korea Radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Jail is a good place for people who want to destroy the government. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us together lobbied other countries’ governments to help fund programming for girls’ education while encouraging private companies and think tanks to commit to the cause. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d slaughter his cattle and hogs here too if only the government would let him. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then my mom got caught helping the underground church and got a fatwa on her head, which means the government wanted her dead—“oh-no” face! Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was mostly Northerners who were in government,” Professor Ezeka whispered, his eyebrows arched, as if he could not believe he had to say what was so obvious. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Valentina herself was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the highest branch of the government’s legislature. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He wanted England, so that he could travel with her; the Americans had barred entry to high-ranking members of the military government. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He could not be accused of being a dupe of the government or of having gone soft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ease and rapidity with which this meeting was set up made me suspect that the government might have planned this rendezvous ahead of time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am amused by everything she says—McDonald’s food is really plastic, downtown Detroit will be all white in ten years, the government watches us through our cell phones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Israel Israel did not choose to step aside and let the workings of the city government continue as usual. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The shootings at Sharpeville provoked national turmoil and a government crisis. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the colored folk in the state had been bought up by the government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I knew, from government records, that Burt had also been the guardian of several other Osage, including one who had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When more government records were declassified, they confirmed that Elizebeth had played a major role in pursuing Nazi spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Soviet government considered it a national embarrassment and punished him for not drawing at least one game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, Mother. The men can take care of the government.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Since our applications for green cards were "pending," the government wouldn't give us the boot, unless our application was denied. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the Constitution was designed so the federal government would be weak, not only in its relationship to private property, but also in relationship to the rights of states to conduct their own affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One such application is to coding theory, which allows government officials, bankers, and others to pass classified sensitive information without fear that it will be unscrambled. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1940, the flow of government money into the Rad Lab had grown into a torrent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I said that I had discussed with Coetsee the idea of beginning talks with the government and that the government seemed interested. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genêt’s first action in the United States was to hire American privateers, privately owned and manned ships, to attack and plunder British ships in the name of his government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

That is what the Bureau—and the entire government, probably—is doing: conditioning people to be happy under its thumb. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And yet I found myself hating the rule and all governments that made rules. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she quit government and opened a small stand in a flea market. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2001, though, with the Internet rapidly expanding, his rants were heard all over the world, and what he said brought renewed scrutiny by the United States government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the alien who lay ill, not acting, not caring, in a room in Sassinoth, two governments fell within ten days. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe Stalin would give his government and the Motherland a fresh start once all this was over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gambling on Warcross is illegal in the United States; it’s one of the many laws the government has recently passed in a desperate attempt to keep up with technology and cybercrime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It called for individuals to rise up and work against the government. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, the gossip network inside the government had picked up the scent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Later, Che was killed in Bolivia while trying to lead a rebel army against the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

No scientific bureaucracy existed in the government to assume the task, so Watson created one on the fly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As a senior KGB official with colleagues and admirers throughout the Soviet government, Gordievsky could not simply be arrested; the KGB had to find solid evidence of his treachery or force him to admit it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

West Texas had a history of staunch conservatism, not to mention a virulent dislike of government as practiced by Democrats. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men, Shamsoun said, first escorted their children and wives into the hills—journeys that took days—and then returned to their villages to save what possessions they could before the government convoys arrived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was im-probable, however, that deputies of the federal government would share his point of view. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaflet denounced the Nazi government and spoke about its evils. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

State legislators did not look kindly on government regulations they felt would impinge on personal freedoms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were on a mission for the National Security Agency—the hush-hush government intelligence agency where William had worked before his retirement, and which he still sometimes served. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Protests against the communist government broke out all over East Germany in the fall of 1989. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This system of government worked as long as the king was not challenged on important matters. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the past half century, the governments of China and North Korea have cooperatively used their security forces to make sure that the intermittent seepage of Koreans across the border never turns into a flood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Used to get twenty-five bucks a day from the government to dive lookin’ for liquor on the bottom and he got three dollars a case from Louie for not findin’ it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The capitalism that bloomed in the cities and small towns of North Korea weakened the government’s iron grip on everyday life and did little to enrich the state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ANC regarded any acceptance of Bantu Authorities as a capitulation to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Conservatives resolutely opposed the government’s policy of negotiations with the ANC, and were composed mainly of Afrikaners who felt that Mr. de Klerk was giving away the store. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they are so smart, so wonderfully smart about how they play it, because it all comes back to reflect on the government and President Snow in particular. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She also feared that the full breadth of his achievements might never be publicly acknowledged, due to government secrecy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s probably because the government erased them all,” I said, dropping my hands in my lap. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The government had sponsored literacy classes for all women. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We had been pressing the government to establish a date for months, and they had been stalling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flight was supported not only by the government but by Josef Stalin himself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We were exhorted to obey God, respect the political authorities, and be grateful for the educational opportunities afforded to us by the church and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, she passed the tissues to the government agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All men were free and equal and this was the foundation of government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The royal family lives here, although the government is based in Amsterdam, the capital. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some sort of humiliation for both Sayle and the British government? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Why else would our government declare them to be non-Germans?” he said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Would you want your state governments run by people who don’t know how to run ’em? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One reason was his rapport with Groves, which helped him fend off any constraints on the Rad Lab’s spending of government funds. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He began to attack the ANC for not adhering to the agreements that we had made with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His death was a severe setback to the government, and the effectiveness and aggressiveness of the Crown team diminished from that point on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government says it wants you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He said the government had turned the country upside down to find the man who shot me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Separatists pendent their own groups who seek to become independent of the nation that has power over them and to form their own government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Once we get rid of them, there’s not much stopping us from controlling the government ourselves.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The racially segregated, poverty-stricken ghettos that exist in inner-city communities across America would not exist today but for racially biased government policies for which there has never been meaningful redress. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just as Joe Slovo had taken the initiative concerning the suspension of the armed struggle, he again took the lead in making another controversial proposal: a government of national unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europe has a highly indented coastline, with five large peninsulas that approach islands in their isolation, and all of which evolved independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments: Greece, Italy, Iberia, Denmark, and Norway/Sweden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The brokers wait eagerly for defectors to graduate from the settlement center and begin receiving monthly stipends from the government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To that fantastical end, the government regularly enlists the masses in miserable tasks dressed up in noble slogans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For since such a government, having been set up by that prince, knows it cannot last without his friendship and power, it must do everything possible to maintain them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A long time ago, the United States government—” “The united what?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the Adams version, this decision was truly decisive because it created separate and independent American governments. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mother-in-law works for a quasi-official corporation that does two-thirds of its business with the government. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A general with a strong Hausa accent came on and announced that there had been a coup and that we had a new government. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The state contended that we were actors in a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The diplomatic situation is somewhat delicate. It is essential that our government not be tied to Yul-Bayur in any way.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But we here have to go on learning. The government has ordered all other schools to stay open. I’m sure things will settle down and will return to normal soon.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, they didn’t teach you about hordes at your fancy government school?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Most if not all were being treated with only a single drug because the government hadn’t come up with the money to buy more. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The government had put him here, he reasoned, the government could arrange his departure. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that he was so hated by the government that he’d be murdered while serving time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They often depend on the South Korean government to solve their problems, and fail to take personal responsibility for poor work habits or for showing up late on the job. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

March: The Red Scare begins when Vladimir Lenin starts a revolution in Russia that changes the Russian government to Communism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

More than a year after the manhunt ended, the government finally paid out the rewards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Teenage defectors from the North, when they arrive in South Korea, have told government counselors of a recurring dream: they are sitting at a table with their families, eating warm rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Cobbett hated Rush because of Rush’s prominent connection to the Revolution and his belief in representative government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt that Daliwonga was collaborating with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Oakland Police Department has access to stuff I never knew existed. They claim that they get a lot of it from the federal government. Surplus from all our country’s military spending or something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

De Wet was one of the last judges appointed by the United Party before the Nationalists came to power and was not considered a government lackey. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The London dialect became the standard of education, government, and business, and it was also the dialect of better-educated and more affluent speakers throughout the Anglosphere. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the help of several cranes provided by the city government, the statue known locally as "Iron Felix" soon lay in pieces on the ground, as the crowd chanted "Down with the KGB!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other thing the eighteenth century saw, of course, was some radical shifts in the style of government. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Before that, the British government’s Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With the war over, Garfield moved to the Appropriations Committee, which monitored the government's finances and spending. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I’d thought it was a small conflict, like the Boston Massacre, which Dad talked about a lot, in which half a dozen people had been martyred by a tyrannical government. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As you may recall from chapter four, although the U.S. government allows atrazine spraying, the chemical is already banned in Europe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her passport, which the Greek government had granted under the condition that she leave the country immediately, bore her mother’s maiden name, Aristos, instead of Stephanides. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The government was under pressure from its supporters in the surrounding areas of Westdene and Newlands, which were comparatively poor white areas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early 1949 Jack Tenney, who had staged the earlier hearing into Rad Lab security, resurfaced with a package of thirteen bills targeting suspected communists at the university and elsewhere in state government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the U.S. government banned the import of wigs that contained hair from China. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or when Manno Charlemagne come on the air, singing one of his songs with the livdy tune and the words about maybe what the government doing to the people, the driver sing along. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then called on all responsible and law-abiding blacks to help the government thwart attempts to turn South Africa —a Christian, civilized, peace-loving multinational democracy—into a Russian satellite. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, I was also ignorant of our illegal immigration status and the sad fact that the government could kick my family and me out of the country, effectively ending any relationship I started. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I sensed the government was anxious to overcome the impasse in the country, that they were now convinced they had to depart from their old positions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ironically, the same government that was telling us to embrace our culture in the homelands forbade Winnie from wearing a Xhosa gown into court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a slow recuperation, but when I feel better the doctor says that I can look for a position back with the government. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government tried a number of underhanded means to interrupt the campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At exactly the same time, another group of criminals stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government warehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"With your head, the government can use you," Hugo tells him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

People who are discriminated based on their race are often resentful of their government and join rebel groups. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

After the Civil War and during the Reconstruction era, the federal government had opened jobs to blacks, providing social mobility particularly for those from educated backgrounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The management of this town has been turned over to the federal government.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the consequence of the government’s humiliating defeat was that the state decided never to let it happen again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Betancourt has accused the Dominican government of being involved in the attempt on his life that occurred in the capital city of Caracas, June 24. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the consequences of Bantu Education came back to haunt the government in unforeseen ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a conspiracy, he conjectured, and the United States government and the Jews were responsible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He toyed briefly with casting the governments die in favor of the calutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Much as I desire the suffrage,” she wrote, “I would rather never vote than to see the policy of our government at the mercy of the religious bigotry of such women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now he regarded Lawrence as a scientist on the make for government largess and personal glory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The remaining papers had to be “grouped, described, labeled, indexed, and reverently dispatched to their sealed tombs in the government vaults.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Consulting contracts were tendered by Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and the American Cyanamid Company, and invitations flowed in to serve on government committees, to lecture, to testify before Congress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When the government withdrew the guard, one of them continued living in the house and was in her service for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t clear how rapidly—or aggressively—the government would pursue him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first refugees arrived in Clarkston in the late 1980s and early 1990s from Southeast Asia—mostly Vietnamese and Cambodians fleeing Communist governments. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The government insisted Sharpeville was the result of a Communist conspiracy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because British municipal governments had invested heavily in gas lighting and placed regulatory obstacles in the way of the competing electric light companies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Park, during the four weeks he had lectured Shin on how the world worked, had also been sharply critical of the North Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When the market fails to distribute some vital commodity, such as housing, to all who require it, the usual liberal-to- moderate expectation is that the government will step in and help. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath, said a few words about student government, and rushed back to my seat, wishing I could disappear. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

So after three days, the government backed down and President Wilson pardoned the protesters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Secret Service, which was already responsible for defending the government against fraud and counterfeiting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Though the government official pushed for their prosecution, no one was ever charged, and the identities of the citizens were never revealed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Despite warnings from paranoid extremist groups, governments around the world approve Fixers for widespread use. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even after apartheid, most black people still lived in the townships and the areas formerly designated as homelands, where the only available government schools were the broken remnants of the Bantu system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In 1946, the Smuts government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, which curtailed the free movement of Indians, circumscribed the areas where Indians could reside and trade, and severely restricted their right to buy property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the U.S. government gave teenage Dung a chance, she had left home and gone halfway around the world to California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

While American officials knew that Soviet troops had already landed on Cuba to help Castro's government, they had no idea that Khrushchev was quietly assembling a nuclear arsenal on the Caribbean island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

RANKIN: And the Communists are dedicated to the overthrow of this government; is that right? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

History, government, religion, politics, and current events became his greatest interests, and during the thirty-three-year interval from his first Reykjavik stay to his second he spent most of his spare time reading and amassing knowledge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What those other people can and cannot do and frankly,” she hiss, “I think it’s downright pigheaded of you. To think you know better than our government? Than Ross Barnett?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

To Oppenheimer, this sounded like a marketing pitch for government funding of Lawrence’s laboratory, and he persuaded Ernest to back down. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To get Argentina’s government to cooperate, they had to confront its officials with proof of what the spies were up to. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’d been arrested earlier that year while in charge of another air force regiment, for endangering the life of a top government official by failing to fly with him through a dust storm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even if he could have borne the disgrace, he’d have lived each day as a fugitive from the Kerch government, a marked man. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In her case, the government official interceded, and she survived. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While the tribe waited for the federal government to respond, Mollie lived in dread, knowing that she was the likely next target in the apparent plot to eliminate her family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I tried everything, but they wouldn’t listen to me. There wasn’t even a real trial. Just a rushed affair with no chance to defend themselves. I can’t understand how this is our government now.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This meant they could—and should—report on all aspects of life in Germany, even if it meant criticizing the government and the occupation forces. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larsen believes in hard work and no handouts and limited government intervention. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fazlullah had set up a public court to enforce his edicts, and his men were now flogging or killing policemen, government officials, and other men and women who disobeyed him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Contemporary examples of these two different kinds of governments are the Turk and the King of France. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bayona based his assertion on interviews with doctors and nurses working in government clinics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Initially, Jefferson simply refused to assign Washington any culpability for the Federalist conspiracy, somehow suggesting that the person at the very center of the government was wholly oblivious to the schemes swirling around him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before the 1970s, government policy was designed to support small farmers, not agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Despite all this effort to placate the American government, however, pressure for fundamental change continued from Washington. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the tremendous cost of the British attacks on its villages and crops, the enormous Cherokee Nation remained strong, with a well-functioning government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone can start a petition on the We the People website at Whitehouse.gov, requesting that the federal government address a problem or change a policy. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The United States, committed to stopping the further spread of communism, backed the government of South Vietnam; it was corrupt and unpopular, but firmly non-communist. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We were angry with our government and angry with these terrorists for trying to ruin our way of life, but my father said our family should do its best to ignore them as well. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Both Senator Kennedy and Senator Humphrey thought they had the solution for West Virginia: active assistance from the federal government in the form of free food, with federal-government jobs to follow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

James Garfield tried to stay neutral in the disagreements, though he more often aligned with those who promoted reform of government hiring practices. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unregulated by the government, it had operated without rules or oversight, almost as its own country, and it had done as it pleased. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was on the road back to Monticello immediately after the inaugural ceremony, setting up the Republican government in exile, waiting for the inevitable catastrophes to befall the presidency of his old friend. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Somebody here told me this used to be a government building, where the old Governor worked,” said Somkit. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Widows know when the telegram money order is due from the English government and they wait by the window. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We set up and operated our own government, we controlled our own arms and we organized our trade and commerce. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was necessary, I said, to create a transitional government as soon as possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government banned the practice in 1997, but there are some exceptions. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But I also knew the delicacy of our talks with the government; any agreements that we arrived at depended in part on their confidentiality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that if the government couldn’t control Paul through intimidation, it would try to control her through incarceration. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From work, Helmuth borrows an official swastika stamper that makes each flier look like an official government notice, and his grandmother gets used to the constant thump-thump she hears each night at the kitchen table. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mail foundered with the government; they received no answer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard stayed until we had stowed all our gear on the government launch that would take us along the lake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Currently, as far as the government and my driver’s license are concerned, I was born on September 21, 1980...even though I was still resting comfortably inside my mom’s womb that day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

People across the country were horrified by the violence and charged the government with complicity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some members of the Unity Movement at first felt that we were accepting a handout from the government, which compromised our integrity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glenn Seaborg, whose work with plutonium was still conducted under strict government security, was more candid about his capitulation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Just because they’ve declared it an unfortunate accident doesn’t mean they’ve fired everyone. And the government isn’t going to lock him up just because he killed a rebel under duress.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Agents fanned out across the country, tailing unsuspecting government officials, listening in on private phone calls, opening mail, and photographing the men and women named in Elizabeth's confession. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only the federal government that was meddling in the tribe’s financial affairs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So without him, there’s no way my student government career ever could have reached the summit I hit today. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had mentioned the possibility that he might look to the army for the funding necessary to complete the cyclotron, even if a government grant would mean devoting the machine chiefly to military research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen them on TV before, the trailers the government puts up for people who’ve lost their homes in natural disasters. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he was a secret government operative whose mission was to befriend me and discover what I knew about the sluggers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The right to assemble and demonstrate in support of our just demands was not a favor to be granted by the government at its discretion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government cruiser was making ready to carry the two roboticists back to Earth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Verwoerd announced that the government would permanendy close all schools that were boycotted and that children who stayed away would not be readmitted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the question of funding the domestic debt, for example, Hamilton regarded Madison’s proposal to distinguish between original and present holders of government securities as naive and mischievous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that a government official delayed their departure to join me because he wanted to fly with them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had edited it herself and toned down his rhetoric, so that his argument—that only a unitary government could remove the divisions of regionalism—was clearer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

According to government figures released in 1980, women earn 59 percent of what men do. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin began to evacuate the Soviet government and told foreign embassies to leave as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then I knew for sure the government and mind-control chips were involved. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, when Sophonax said, “Now,” he turned away from the river and walked swiftly across the road and into an alley between two stone-fronted buildings that might have been banks or government offices. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One day in class we had pretend elections, to learn how government works. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of konohiki carrying out every aspect of administration for a Hawaiian district, state governments have several separate departments, each with its own hierarchy, to handle water management, taxes, military draft, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I am nine, I will be issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth, but at this moment, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I do not exist. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he was smart, that Green was. He took a job with the government. Mrs. Dalton made him go to night school. Mrs. Dalton’s always trying to help somebody.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Allied occupation consisted of Western soldiers, mostly Americans, who were stationed in Japan to restore order and tell the Japanese people how to make a new government. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her clear, calm testimony helped the government win its case. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Operation Mayibuye sketches out in general form the plan for the possible commencement of guerrilla operations, and how it might spark a mass armed uprising against the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“According to the government, there are approximately a quarter of a million children under the age of eighteen, but our estimate is closer to a tenth of that.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the right papers. The government stopped issuing passports months back.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except for a handful of doctors, government officials, and family friends who would enter the Petersen house, that glimpse of the president ascending the stairs was the last time Americans saw Abraham Lincoln alive. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That did not sound like too exciting a discovery to me, but when he explained what it was for, I could see that it was—or would seem so to the government. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Solving the problem of longitude was a universally recognized challenge: indeed, governments had promised enormous rewards for anyone who could succeed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Finding neither, they are angry and take it out on all officers in the government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our idiot government should break ranks with Britain too. We must take a stand! Why is Britain not doing more in Rhodesia? What bloody difference will limp economic sanctions make?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Weyand admitted the situation in Vietnam looked dire, but held out a thin thread of possibility: maybe the South Vietnamese government could be propped up with more financial help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a debate about what the government should do with the leftover bomb material. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This paying back of the antiseptic government for its literary terrors and conflagrations. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent two and a half years awaiting the high court’s decision, which was that she had been right: the government cannot detain loyal citizens against their will. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it soon became clear where the federal government stood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Although the government now called passes “reference books,” women weren’t fooled: they could still be fined ten pounds or imprisoned for a month for failing to produce their “reference book.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news reported that Polish government officials had gone to Germany to meet with that country's leadership to try to avert war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Because of her politics, her husband lost his job at Lockheed, a company with government contracts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson figured they, like the German boys, had likely been subsidized by the fascist government that had sent them to the games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He said government employees probably sat around a table and talked for an hour about what to call the camps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The protesters had issued an ultimatum, demanding that the government repeal the Black Act. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The document, created by the Labor Department to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, certainly also served as another propaganda tool for the US government to improve its image on racial relations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jacobs was forever predicting the imminent collapse of the United States government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The government’s engine of bureaucracy accelerated slowly, however, and although the Justice Department decided to make its move against him, it took time and approvals to decide when and where an arrest could be made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They sold it to private traders, often for dollars or euros, and delivered the goods using government vehicles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Trying to outwit any government pursuers, he at first stayed at a small hotel and then at an inn on the outskirts of town. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the government catches wind of any success here, the Minister of Agriculture will rob us out of existence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in America the government had let some Nikkei out of the camps to go to work, usually in factories. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was what the government—the army, of course—wanted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

According to his own rough calculations, Virginia would transfer about $3 million of debt to the federal government, then be charged about $5 million in new taxes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The source of the disagreement goes much deeper, however, involving conflicting attitudes toward government itself, competing versions of citizenship, differing postures toward the twin goals of freedom and equality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The government continued reassuring whites that the situation in the ghettos was under control, that it was only a matter of time before complete order was restored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We suspected his previous independence had brought down the wrath of the government and pressure had been applied. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brown also telegraphed messages to other key government officials and the Garfield family in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Excitedly Roy explained that the burrowing owls were protected by state and federal laws, and that it was illegal to harm the birds or disturb active burrows without getting special government permits. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked on energy contracts for the government, which sounds as mysterious as it was. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But wrong or right, the problem with governments is that they were very big and you were very small. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They’d had to create a government from nothing, along with laws and a system of justice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In effect, the TEC would be the government between December 22 and the election on April 27. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

More important, it might precipitate regime collapse in North Korea and lead to the unification of the Korean Peninsula under a Seoul-based government closely allied with the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If the government did not unban the ANC, as soon as I was out of prison I would be working for an illegal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That spring, Chapter Eleven had received two letters, one from the University of Michigan informing him of his acceptance and the other from the U.S. government informing him of his eligibility for the draft. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

According to reports Dacca was repairing itself slowly, with a newly formed parliamentary government. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Would all members of the student government please report to the auditorium at the start of the fourth class period? Thank you.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Federalism—the division of power between the states and the federal government—was the device employed to protect the institution of slavery and the political power of slaveholding states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government's top brass wanted to hear directly from Marti about their most precious Russian spy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Independence they found they were not entitled to any government benefits like job reservations or bank loans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, they were Christians, and therefore caste- less. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next line was something like “Did you think that you would become the government?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny Cakes explained that, on principle, he refused to pay the government for a liquor license, which was why he was bringing in the liquor secretly. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told a Treasury official that she wanted to lobby for a law making it illegal to mention government workers by name without their permission. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Worried that the government was wasting taxpayer money, Truman decided to send investigators to Oak Ridge and Hanford. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A somewhat touchy correspondence then ensued, in which Jefferson attempted to remind Adams that their much-valued friendship did not depend on complete agreement about forms of government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To maintain power in the face of the country’s rising and restless black majority, the government realized they needed a newer and more robust set of tools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had several private meetings with him at his residence, and later that year the government made its first concrete proposal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not simply about how governments, business, and people communicate, not just about how organizations interact, but is about the emergence of completely new social, political, and business models. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had just become the first person in American history to face criminal charges for leaking government secrets to the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the documents revealed a vast discrepancy between what government officials had been saying publicly and what they knew to be true. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Plantation owners were suddenly destitute, and state governments, shackled by war debt, were penniless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government ordered him to be held as a "restricted or isolated prisoner" to keep him separated from the other inmates. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Richard was surprised when he heard the announcement that the federal government had declared a police action to bring the rebels to order. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was not given to conspiracy theories or believing that the U.S. government willfully committed human rights violations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each of the accused suggested that it was the government that was criminal before pleading not guilty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those reactionary countries in which the deviates seem to be having some trouble in gaining control, we will send aid to them as rebels to help them in toppling their governments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant a vigorous federal government with sufficient powers to coerce the citizenry to pay taxes and obey the laws. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The government has been threatening to shut down the experiments for almost a year now,” Nita says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For the highly secretive Soviet government, a leadership merry-go-round like this was unprecedented: In the entire history of the USSR, only four men had occupied the leadership post. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He spread the government out between Virginia and New York for its protection. To make sure none of the fugitive Psi groups or the League got any ideas about wiping it all out at once.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He and El Patron sat in adjoining wheelchairs and cackled over old memories— rivals they had destroyed and governments they had overthrown. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks he can control the whole Chesapeake Bay? Ain’t no government can control that water.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His appointment indicated one thing: the government believed that discipline on the island was too lax, and that a strong hand was needed to keep us in line. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luthuli was one of a handful of ruling chiefs who were active in the ANC and had staunchly resisted the policies of the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The standard government work week was Monday through Friday, plus a half day on Saturday, but she requested a special security pass to stay in the building after hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, however, when the national government, dominated by northern Arabs, tried to impose Islamic laws on the entire nation, civil war broke out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took part in tribal government, working for education reform on our reservation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a volunteer came riding up by bicycle with news: The government would not budge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had no idea the amount of legal fees and stress my parents endured in order for my sister and me to have government IDs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were no proper shops, no universities, no hospitals or female doctors, no clean water or electricity from the government. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At Mqhekezweni I had met many white traders and government officials, including magistrates and police officers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not repeat his doubts about whether the royal government of Elfland would really send help. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But whether the future of nuclear technology lay in war or peace, dispersing an effective team of experienced researchers and leaving them without financial support would be a foolhardy course for the government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though everyone in the house had been talking nonstop, it had mostly been to government agents, not to one another, and their own curiosities had yet to be satisfied. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The subtext was the necessity of government funding for more nuclear reactors—including one, it was hoped, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I've only eaten half an apple since my encounter with the strange government agent last night. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About 240 million acres of America’s forests are owned by the government. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The emissary addressed the question to Yee, the local government official at whose home he had spent the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

American women spent years persuading the government to let them deliver military planes, but only Soviet women could fight air battles in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Yet now the government was saying we not only were free to go; like the move out of Terminal Island, and the move to Owens Valley, we had to go. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day, I did not have much opportunity to sight-see for I met immediately with the men protesting the government offer of amnesty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, the bill permitted the government to outlaw any organization and to restrict any individual opposed to its policies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Found him and jailed him. Took his government work papers. They were going to send him to the Creek Nation in Oklahoma. State capital is Oklahoma City.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The new government was unable to cope with its country’s needs, and failed crops resulted in a horrific famine that lasted into 1922 and killed millions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Like I keep waiting for the paper to talk about how amazing it’d feel if your family didn’t need to fill out that government form for an EBT card. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Salatin is confident he could meet any health standard the government would set. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"The government doesn't know we exist. We could get deported at any time." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Though Roosevelt was also a colonel and a former president, he was an American guest of the Brazilian government and could not risk going against his host country’s laws. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Those opposed to negotiations benefited from the violence, which always seemed to flare up when the government and the ANC were moving toward an agreement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if a hospital or government agency can afford the antibiotics, the illness is difficult to manage. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The announcement of Umkhonto spurred a vicious and unrelenting government counteroffensive on a scale that we had never before seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to be away from the seat of the federal government for fifteen days or so and did not take any official papers with him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

If the government decided to demolish Newsome Park tomorrow, there simply would be no place for the residents to go. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The saying currently blabbed by posters, TV ads, and government junk mail, ran: “Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of our families were still poor because of the government livestock reduction of our sacred herds. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There you go, little witches. That will explain everything you need to know about how your local government works,” Alaric said a little too loudly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he did exhibit a certain wariness in dealing with the U.S. government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By 1839, so many of the Chinese were addicts that China’s desperate government destroyed twenty thousand chests of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are under arrest for intent to overthrow the government of this mission, murder the council members, and make yourself ruler.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fascism, which we associate so strongly with the Nazi Party, is a form of government rooted in nationalism, in which democracy gives way to a dictator. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But then things got harder, and the government social workers started coming by our house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re from the government We want to ask you some questions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Iranian government reported that thirty-six people died in the protests, but the opposition party alleged that more than twice that number were killed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jefferson genuinely believed, and Madison reinforced the belief, that the Federalists had captured the government from the American people. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the formation of the federal government, they argued, individual states had been extremely wary about giving away too much of their governing power to any future president. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Something about him said government—a species Dad had trained us to avoid. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons the South African government was reluctant to grant passports to blacks, I believe, had to do with the nature of the American government. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They succeeded so well that their spurious product responded to the appropriate chemical tests and deceived the government chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The government puts out calls for men to enlist in the service. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sharpening the tenor of the discussions in Chicago were signals that the government was considering shutting down the Met Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“This is wrong, officers. You have no right to take this car. I have my pass. I am working for our government.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No offense. Just thought I’d ask. And how do you know I don’t work for someone else? Don’t you think you’re giving the government too much credit?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just go on electing people to government because they were friends of your father or grandfather,” she says, chewing on a bite of celery. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything Mark had witnessed in the last week had been sanctioned by the acting government of the flare-inflicted world. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I said the rejection of majority rule by the government was a poorly disguised attempt to preserve power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not abandon the government, but capture it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The government of Elfland must deny everything to do with him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In a certain sense, Hall’s Adventure Consultants compound served as the seat of government for the entire Base Camp, because nobody on the mountain commanded more respect than Hall. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How could scholars ignore what governments took seriously? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As a man without a country, Bobby eventually chose to settle in Hungary, and he had never heard another word from the American government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The “resolution” for the sample debate was that “Fair governments should require employers to pay a living wage,” and I kind of have an opinion on that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I pop a few grapes in my mouth and hold out a study sheet dissecting the branches of the government. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is that this makes me the greatest seventh-grade president in the history of student government. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Congress to pass laws and appropriate money, the workings of the federal government would eventually come to a grinding halt. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases against the city, the federal government, FEMA, police officers, the Army Corps of Engineers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the hazy dawn hours of February 9, four thousand police and army troops cordoned off the township while workers razed empty houses and government trucks began moving families from So- phiatown to Meadowlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army was too busy fighting the dead to chase them, so the government gave up and just focused on us Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I learned that if I went to America, the government would take care of me for ninety days. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most crucial tasks which will face the government and the ANC will be to reconcile these two positions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll know exactly where the ten-second place is, and that I’m either an agent sent by the government or by the black-market dealers that pay taxes to the government. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I was reluctant to do this as Dr. Naicker was my senior and a man who had suffered far more than I, but we discussed ways to overcome government restrictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are generalizations, like the proposition that increasing corporation tax will damage the government’s revenues because companies will migrate to territories with lower tax regimes. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 2008, many North Korean defectors were so deeply in debt to the smugglers that the South Korean government changed the way it distributed cash support. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The PAC declared that they intended to overthrow white supremacy and establish a government Africanist in origin, socialist in content, and democratic in form. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new laws and tactics of the government had made the old forms of mass protest — public meetings, press statements, stay-aways — extremely dangerous and self-destructive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The report issued by the committee following the October meeting was as uncompromising a brief against the Super as any that would emerge from a government panel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And so the government helped launch the chemical fertilizer industry. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I said I felt certain that the only reason black Africans—our black brothers—could be so silent about what happened in America was that they had been misinformed by the American government’s propaganda agencies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The US government had allowed each family to bring only sixty dollars on board this ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My hand is kind of numb,” he said apologetically and reached across with his right hand and brought out a yellow government postcard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nice to have radio like that for a while, where we could talk about what we wanted from government, what we wanted for the future of our country. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The months pass and the government continues to increase our food ration, allowing me to grow a little stronger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the American government’s plan to stabilize the local economy might help the wealthy business class, but it would do nothing to ease the suffering of the vast majority of people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Scruggs joined about 300 other guys to watch the folk singer Arlo Guthrie defy attempts by the government to draft him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would try to get it back, he was sure, she would write petitions and go to court and tell everyone that the federal government had stolen her house, in that fearless way of hers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The colonial government retaliated by sending a force led by a mercenary named John Mason to Mystic River, where Pequots were living in two forts. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Banning was a legal order by the government, and generally entailed forced resignation from in-dicated organizations, and restriction from attending gatherings of any kind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Islamist government in Khartoum didn’t make life easy for the Christians who moved to the capital looking for work, food, and housing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The overwhelming majority of forfeiture cases do not involve any criminal charges, so the vast majority of people who have their cash, cars, or homes seized must represent themselves in court, against the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Shu government had been capturing and experimenting on Grisha for years in an attempt to locate the source of their power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Truman tried to mollify his critics by instituting a new loyalty program for the federal government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I believed these stories were planted by the government to divide the Congress movement, and I regarded it as malicious mischief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In granting the permission, Hitler saw an opportunity to improve the Aryan race and to save the government money. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He and many others believed that the German government ended the war too early and was "stabbing" the German people in the back. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars—yet the project was so secret, President Roosevelt chose not to tell Congress where all the money was going. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffragists saw the vote as a way they could make the world a better place by using it to increase wages, eliminate child labor, and reduce government corruption. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, steel companies had incited this xenophobia and painted strikers as wanting to overthrow the government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He is among the 20 to 30 percent of those boarding the trains in Tapachula who are fifteen or under, by estimate of Grupo Beta, a government migrant rights group in Chiapas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was much harder to hide someone who looked like me, and the government was watching much more closely. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After the group finished with me, they planned to see both Oliver in Lusaka and government officials in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kerry’s view, it was the government that was guilty of betraying the troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The group met for over five months in formal meetings, and there was much correspondence and phone exchanges between them as they began lobbying the Icelandic government to consider Fischer’s case. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our preparations worried the government; four days before the election, the state ruled that a gathering of more than ten Africans in any urban area was illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the German government recognized the value of these same chemicals as new and devastating weapons in man’s war against his own kind, and the work on them was declared secret. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memory of its dead enemy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been a young man in the 1940s when he first joined the African National Congress and began boldly challenging the all-white South African government and its entrenched racist policies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The United States government wanted this deadly enemy identified and eradicated. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Don Enrique’s daughter says it’s about time women took over the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank is still watching that show—this time it’s a secret government drone conspiracy that’s going to make everything go up in flames—and he doesn’t even notice me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This is Kabul Women here used to practice law and medicine; they held office in the government—” Rasheed grinned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

On November 9, an East German government spokesman named Gunter Schabowski gave a press conference at which he stated that travel restrictions between East and West Germany would be eased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s policies were perceived by many as a continuation of apartheid by other means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike any other aid recipient in the world, North Korea’s government insisted on sole authority for transporting donated food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Laphams had hated such lawless seizure of government by the Sons of Liberty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government still existed and the government owed the owner of that lottery ticket ten thousand dollars. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The justices gave little indication of which way they were leaning, though Justice Thurgood Marshall offered a clue in an exchange with Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who was handling the government’s case. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The French are no more capable of a republican government,” he insisted, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Half the population hoped to overthrow the government and the other half defended it, and no one had time to worry about work. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His questions went to the heart of the issues dividing the government and the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to responding to the government, I wanted to thank publicly the UDF for its fine work and to congratulate Bishop Tutu on his prize, adding that his award belonged to all the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kruger was not only influential about prisons policy but he was critical to the government’s handling of the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those movies were how I started to learn what is going on in the world, how people learned the government of Kim Jong II is not really for their own good.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When, if ever, are citizens justified in leaking information the government has deemed secret? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Although some Americans called for the government to make room for its share of Jewish refugees, many others worried about the jobs that the immigrants would take away from Americans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them live on mission stations or government reserves, or else work for whites as herdsmen on cattle stations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A truck, a government truck, stops near the tall office building, beside the hawkers’ shacks, and men spill out, men hitting and destroying and leveling and trampling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lawmakers from Southern states argued that the federal government should not have the power to interfere with a state’s constitutional right to impose its own voting requirements. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper chain project is a student government dream come true. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Most Soviet and American soldiers went home after 1948, and many assumed that Korea would eventually unify under a single government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once Dasch was sentenced to prison, he stopped helping the government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Pilots and navigators, many of them already experienced flight instructors, were all sure that the famous Marina Raskova might be able to influence the highest levels of government in a way that they could not. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“A group of men who have quarrelled with the law cannot be expected to set up a government patterned after the one they antagonized.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored people, black people, white people, and Indian people were forced to register their race with the government. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one in the US government was better informed about Soviet activities in the United States than J. Edgar Hoover. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I worked for the government on several occasions, but lost the jobs due to illness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire ant suddenly became the target of a barrage of government releases, motion pictures, and government-inspired stories portraying it as a despoiler of southern agriculture and a killer of birds, livestock, and man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The government—Papa often just called them “they”—wanted to induct the “loyal” men into the army, so they needed to figure out who was a loyal American and who could be discarded as disloyal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you want me to help you destroy a government, I’m here to serve. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Like the failure to compensate the original holders of government securities, this was unfair. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Colonial governments, and later the United States, frequently deployed rangers to quash Indigenous resistance and displace Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It has always depended on handouts from foreign governments, and if they end, the Kim dynasty would probably collapse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But I responded with frankness: “I want to see the minister in order to raise the question of talks between the government and the ANC.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing his government name was more than a surprise. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The remaining four proposed factors—war, centralized government, climate, and resource abundance—appear to act inconsistently: sometimes they stimulate technology, sometimes they inhibit it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Hamilton reasoned, the government would not automatically cease functioning if an enemy army captured the capital. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And you must remember that black people worked for the government as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The result is a system of stratification based on the “official certification of individual character and competence”—a form of branding by the government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had actually lent his support to the Stamp Act in 1765 and lobbied for a position within the English government as late as 1771. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If the government fell, what would the new rulers do about the camps? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So reported the government officials Mr. Benedict had persuaded to raid the Institute. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the government man shook his head anyway, as if he knew what I was thinking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government had sent “feelers” to me over the years, beginning with Minister Kruger’s efforts to persuade me to move to the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I worried that if people from other countries passed as Puerto Ricans in order to cheat the government, it reflected badly on us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I have been lied to by my government for my entire life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Experienced interrogators, they conduct extensive interviews with every North Korean defector and have been trained to screen out the assassins that Kim Jong Il’s government periodically dispatched to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

You were what the government said you were. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would probably take years for the ANC to control the levers of government, even after an election. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

North Vietnam had a communist government, allied with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was infuriating to discover the reason for all these terrible disasters and not to be able to tell the public, almost worse than it being the government’s fault after all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But now that government has largely withdrawn its “handouts,” now that the overwhelming majority of the poor are out there toiling in Wal-Mart or Wendy’s—well, what are we to think of them? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth’s skill at avoiding the manhunters increased the government’s embarrassment over its failure to find him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the debate was nearing an end, I felt I had been too harsh with the man who would be my partner in a government of national unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will call on our government to come and end this madness.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t that be wonderful? The government would pay us to travel. How divine. We would bring an end to world strife and renew people’s hope and faith.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s immense financial sway over research funding gave its interests—including its political interests—immense weight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But although Royal in name, the London-based society was a collection of private individuals with no official source of funding and no obligations to the government. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In actuality, the pogrom—the massacre and brutal treatment of helpless people—had been carefully planned, organized, and carried out by the Nazi government, namely by Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Let the federal government have all the free hand-out programs it wanted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandringham was what we call a Model C school, which meant it was a mix of government and private, similar to charter schools in America. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Andean societies were based on the widespread exchange of goods and services, but kin and government, not market forces, directed the flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beatrice’s husband was a paymaster, a man whose job it was to hand out wages to employees of the former government, and the men at the door wanted whatever cash he could get. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Before they took their leave, I told them the time had come for negotiations, not fighting, and that the government and the ANC should sit down and talk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pronouncements of foreign governments, their policies, plans, and acts were calculated and weighed in relation to the lives of people about me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Works Progress Administration was a government program formed to create jobs during the Depression years. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The government subsequently passed a law that made it an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to offer unauthorized education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Remile suddenly ascertained that I was due some government benefits, being the child of a veteran. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The responsibility...,” the press release said, “is with the government and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens government in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My ma died when I was born, and being my old man was a government packer in the mountains, and no cows around most of the time, why he just gave me mostly mare’s milk.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m a simple man, you see,” he said, “and that’s exactly what I do. All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a monumental irony: The man famous as the indefatigable orator of independence in the Continental Congress was obliged to remain silent in the legislative councils of the new government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Through my father’s exertions a part of the inheritance of Elizabeth had been restored to her by the Austrian government. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Walter and I were in Orlando West on the fringes of a Freedom Day crowd that had gathered despite the government’s restrictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too much went to pay overhead—consultants, intermediaries, transportation companies, government fees—and not enough reached those in need. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

His judgment in the case completely upheld our claim that I had a right to campaign for my political beliefs even though they were opposed to the government, and he dismissed the Law Society’s application. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to every police station and government building, any place that had the Nazi flag draped outside. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, many were well educated and came from a variety of ordinary backgrounds: the Gestapo, the police force, government positions, or professions such as law and banking. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban have become an irritation to foreign governments.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The government was also building a massive factory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city with eighty thousand workers living in trailers around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jefferson-Madison collaboration was not just committed to capturing the federal government for the Republicans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

During those six months, a loyajirga would be held, a grand council of leaders and elders, who would form an interim government to hold power for two years, leading up to democratic elections. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The government was always testing nuclear bombs in the desert near the ranch, Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Tories believing all differences could be settled with time, patience, and respect for government. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were galleries and underground theaters where artists and performers dared to speak up and criticize the government in front of integrated crowds. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“During war, government said must eat insect to survive. Also, it will give you energy because grasshopper have many energy. They have almost as much energy as me when I your age, Aki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The newscaster read a small portion of the press release from the Canadian government, which referred to Nwankiti Ogechi as “a man of honor.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sass led me to the government office, where there was an official wearing a suit, shirt, tie, and jacket. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So on July 28, 1942, the Soviet government issued a new order, with an even more fearsome message than Order 270. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The government’s already got enough problems to deal with. It s not going to interfere with us.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was wrong to think the newspapers or government was suppressing his letter: His friend, terrified of being connected to the assassin, never delivered the letter to the newspaper. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Theresa had begun her internship; they had all studied up on the three branches of government, and so advanced from permanent residents to citizens. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also tried to ignore the condescending remarks by TASS, the government news agency, about her being of the fair sex. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The coup “culminated three months of conversation about a coup, conversation which divided the government here and in Saigon,” Kennedy said into the microphone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Stalin’s government hadn’t ever encouraged outspokenness among its citizens. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There is some beautiful wild country around our Tchimpounga Sanctuary, and the government has agreed that it can become a preserved area. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some were government officials, including the city's coroner and the surgeons general of the Navy and the Marine Hospital Service. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“All in solid, safe blue-chip stocks and government bonds.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The men studied medicine, law, theology, and emerged repeatedly in the powerless government offices available to the native population. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make peace, the German government agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“What these studies tell me is we must remember this is a self-governing country. We are the government.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That’s not about the government, you moron. And it doesn’t even make sense.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the Constitution now ratified and the new federal government safely in place, Franklin resumed his plea that slavery be declared incongruous with the revolutionary principles on which the nation was founded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would be, in effect, paying the government for incarcerating him for a month. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By 1963, the South Vietnamese government had relocated more than five million farmers to heavily fortified villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In this instance, it was the ANC, not the government, that sought to calm the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the day before we were to meet, the South African government took a step that sabotaged whatever goodwill had been engendered by the Commonwealth visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or do you have skills to offer, as I’m sure you do—” “I don’t work for the government.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As I returned to Johannesburg, I knew that this raid signaled a harsh new turn on the part of the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived at the palace at eight o’clock and was surprised to see the great square completely empty and a large detachment of soldiers stationed at the gates to the seat of the government. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experience convinced us that rebellion would offer the government limitless opportunities for the indiscriminate slaughter of our people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Booth was gone, but they searched his trunk and discovered an incredible and mysterious letter to Booth signed only “Sam” that described a large conspiracy against the Union government. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you work for and by yourself on commission and the government is sending you registered letters, you need to get creative about your income stream.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To secure the Revolution and stabilize its legacy on a national level required a dominant leader who focused the energies of the national government in one “singular character.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With all of this went the demoralizing effect of an unsuccessful war and the extraordinary challenges associated with rebuilding new state and local governments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They’re the largest military force the government has now, and, thanks to dear old Dad, the most organized.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two headlights poked from the black shadow of a cargo container and a government saloon screeched along the quay. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

First, Europeans have for thousands of years been living in densely populated societies with central governments, police, and judiciaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Chincha elite, afraid to take on the Inka army, always chose compliance over valor, and were rewarded with plum positions in the colonial government. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What system is in place so that no part of the government becomes too powerful?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the political patronage system, still in place despite President Hayes’s efforts to fix it, Garfield was expected to fill thousands of government positions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We had developed a certain affection for our opponent, for despite Pirow’s noxious political views, he was a humane man without the virulent personal racism of the government he was acting for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew early on that the government was fiercely opposed to a winner-takes-all Westminster parliamentary system, and advocated instead a system of proportional representation with built-in structural guarantees for the white minority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, it is not enough. I’m urging the government to let private citizens build warships, too. Salem will build a frigate, the minute we have permission.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have argued particularly against two government programs—affirmative action and bilingual education. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried the City of Cleveland, then Cuyahoga County, then the State of Ohio, and finally the U.S. government. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is not enough power in the country even to keep the lights on in Pyongyang, where the government tries to pamper the elite. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“My father was a government packer. I helped him when I was a kid. Just the two of us could about clean up a deer’s ham.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But he immediately softened his voice and begged her to leave before the police came in, because he was in a position to know that the government was not going to let them stay indefinitely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was young—before the government maize and tobacco estates arrived and cleared most of our trees—the forests were so dense a traveler could lose his sense of time and direction in them. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Certainly their report to the government is an excited and an exciting document. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I explained to Mr. de Klerk that we could not tell our supporters to relax sanctions until he had completely dismanried apartheid and a transitional government was in place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parker was estimated to be worth over $120 million, but the government could only locate half of that amount. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Soviet players were subsidized by their government and in many cases given dachas as retreats where they could study and train for matches. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had developed sophisticated philosophies of government, traditions of diplomacy, and policies of international relations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If we are caught being part of the operation as either an abettor or a refugee, the Vietnamese government could take our gold and throw us in jail for five years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nations such as Russia, Poland, and Finland also experienced disastrous economic times and suffered from oppressive governments, leading many to risk the long, treacherous ocean voyage to America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There’d been signs and rumors that some kind of central government was organizing itself, but no news that was even close to reliable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

These two conservative barons had never yielded to Arthur, and they did not believe in any form of government except the rule of force. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure what the hell motivated Michael to get in trouble all the time, but he suspected that the federal government’s desegregation plan had something to do with it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A government employee, Johnson argued, had every right to make his case within the government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were still plenty of Democratic aldermen and department heads in city government. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The government that controls the past controls the future. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They envisioned thousands of black brothers converging together upon Washington—to lie down in the streets, on airport runways, on government lawns— demanding of the Congress and the White House some concrete civil rights action. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could not have youngsters scaling walls to go into town and go wild, the way they did at the federal government colleges. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This gave the European governments and the government-backed corporations control and influence farther and farther from the original settlements. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The prices of clothing, for example, have barely risen in the last decade, while department store prices in general fell 10 percent from 1994 to 2004, the federal government says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Next came the U.S. government, seeking to place an Indian exhibit on the island, and then Professor Putnam, the fair’s chief of ethnology, who saw the island as the ideal site for several exotic villages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

From street sweepers to hoteliers to government clerks, thousands of Germans now went ardently to work to make sure that, come August, the world would see Germany’s best face. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Their principal concern was whether or not the Congress Alliance was strong enough to halt the government’s plans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the groups, a secret Communist faction—the Khmer Rouge—launched an armed struggle against the Cambodian government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, Milligan’s memory had returned, and with it a number of top-secret government passwords. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

What you need here is a strong government, with a strong man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be led by Lyman J. Briggs, a career government scientist then directing the National Bureau of Standards, which by default served as the government’s physics laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On the all-important question of sovereignty, the same artfully contrived ambiguity also obtained: Sovereignty did not reside with the federal government or the individual states; it resided with “the people.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Longstreet caught the conclusion of Sorrel’s sentence. ”... know that government derives its power from the consent of the governed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was serving Baby’s porridge when the deputy president spoke briefly on the radio, the voice understated, as if he were exhausted from the effort of saying, “The government is handing over to the military.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid runaways and orphans vanish even more easily than government agents do,” said Mr. Benedict. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand you’re out of work,” the government man said first off. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure. People who don’t know her well—the government, her boss. We all have our official names, and then our nicknames, which are like secrets that only the people who love us use.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the end, they agreed to accept the government’s offer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus America’s problem is not its betrayal of “government of the people,” but the means by which “the people” acquired their names. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But even the government agents, two men in black jackets who came some time ago, yanked at the hibiscus as they left. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They did not come into substantial contact with Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Russian fur merchants overturned their governments, established military outposts throughout the region, and demanded furs in tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The United States is one of the few governments that actually supports an agency devoted to reversing the arms race. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The countries were arranged by continent, six to a page, with the capitals in boldface, followed by a short entry on the population, government, and other statistics. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knew the government did not really function like the neat little charts in some middle-school civics textbook. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If she wants to believe in a government conspiracy, I don’t think I can dissuade her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The picketers didn’t want to be pardoned by the government for something they didn’t believe was a crime. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Our much-needed manpower, in order to take Erudite headquarters, and an equal place in government, with us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

President Thieu knew his government would not last long against the Communists without American help. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The government doesn’t want you quiet, Titid,” says Lally, smiling like little angel. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Diaries describe a violent Aryan revolution in the United States that overthrows the government and seeks to take over the world. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Still, the story had been vetted and rang true to survivors of other labor camps, to scholars, to human rights advocates, and to the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was already a substantial underground facility here, developed over centuries to be either a clandestine refuge for government leaders in times of war or a last resort for humanity if life above became unlivable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The federal government no longer made any effort to enforce federal civil rights legislation, and funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau was slashed to such a degree that the agency became virtually defunct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This type of raid was something new and set a pattern for the pervasive and illegal searches that subsequently became a regular feature of the government’s behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In mid 1943, the Soviet government established “Laboratory Number 2,” a secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claiming that the ghettos were in danger of disintegrating into anarchy instigated by the ANC, the Afrikaans papers urged the government to use maximum force to restore law and order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The different European governments frequently pitted one Indigenous nation against another. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tribes still have an informal, “egalitarian” system of government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once you were scheduled, you could choose a place—a state, a city, a town—and the government would pay your way there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ain’t no fun waiting once a month for that little check that the government gives you, and then you try to get a job and you can’t. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pd been hiding every year since I’d been eleven, and now at fourteen I was more than old enough to get carted off to one of the government schools. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A couple of months earlier, all the national parks, along with all other nonessential government departments, had been closed for a couple of weeks during a budget impasse between President Clinton and Congress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Survival is a continuous negotiation, as you have to barter covertly for every service the government pretends to provide, but actually doesn’t. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell the truth, he doesn’t believe in government at all. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Did the United States government know about the jelly beans? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

After Washington, Lawrence and Alvarez planned to fly to Ottawa for a look at the Canadian government’s heavy-water reactor in nearby Chalk River, a design they thought might be adapted for tritium production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Estraven when in power had never done so, and it was not in the Karhidish vein: their government was not a public performance, normally; it was covert and indirect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At a House subcommittee hearing in 1920, lawmakers combed through a report from a government inspector who had been sent to investigate the tribe’s spending habits, including those of Mollie’s family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Modern computing was in its infancy, still used only by corporations and the military, or other huge government operations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He assumed that with each day since the hurricane, the city would find its way toward some kind of stability, and that the government would soon send help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The government says the levels are low enough that our systems can “tolerate” them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The colonial account of Inka history closest to indigenous sources is byjuan de Betanzos, a Spanish commoner who rose to marry an Inka princess and become the most prominent translator for the colonial government. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Virginia, in short, was being asked to trust its fate to the collective wisdom and virtue of the central government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had sought advice on the issue from a number of cabinet members and government officials, but no agreement had been reached. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Because the government pays them part of the difference. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He accused certain governments, pharmaceutical companies, and public health policies of favoring the “maldistribution of medical technologies.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the political front, the government was pursuing its standard divide-and-rule strategy in attempting to separate Africans from Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president was dead, but the U.S. government had to go on. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t the police or the government stop them?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“They started there, bombed holes into the runways. No one can fly in. They want to have their government installed before the UN or whoever else cares to help can get here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Had it worked out so he brought up one case a day to keep the government happy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that because of the government’s actions we had taken a more militant stance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bombings started, villagers fled for the mountains, as the government had hoped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Many governments, agencies, and foundations base their policies, foreign aid, and loans on this explanation, by making the development of good institutions in poor countries their top priority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were given an unprecedented amount of information and intelligence from every corner of the U.S. government and a methodology that was logical and systematic and rational and rigorous. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were rumors about where the government was sending them next, rumors about the food supply, rumors about the war, and at one time even rumors about the government possibly killing them all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 2010, as food shortages again became severe, the government launched a massive back-to-the-farm campaign to persuade city dwellers to move to the countryside and raise crops. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The federal government came up with $42 million to evacuate the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the government was sufficiently rattled by our protest to modify the act, and at one point Verwoerd was compelled to declare that education should be the same for all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here it was again, Pierre Lemerre’s phrase, Jefferson’s phrase, the principle Clarkson was fighting for—indeed, he came to France to support the new government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, Muluzi had been a wealthy businessman before entering politics and believed government had no business dealing in fertilizer and seed. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yet, Chief Buthelezi had consistently called for my release and refused to negotiate with the government until I and other political prisoners were liberated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government seized their home and bulldozed the whole area to build a fancy, new white suburb, Triomf. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Institutions—government, religion, school administrations, the music industry, Microsoft—were roadblocks, put on earth to obstruct and torment him, invade his privacy and limit his freedom of movement on the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our rights are unnatural, or we should need no government to defend them.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Filthy poisons. The government not going to trouble to keep the ditch dean, because the people who live along the ditch are all kongos “So there are many kongos living along the ditch?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, Hamilton’s recommendation looked straightforward: All citizens who owned government securities should be reimbursed at par—that is, the full value of the government’s original promise. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The government wanted to force military service on the men—and to send them back into the Nuba Mountains to continue the campaign of terror. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Late in May, the government staged countrywide raids on opposition leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can borrow the rest from the federal government,” he said, handing me a National Defense Student Loan application. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mother is even more amazed by the generosity of the American government until Brother Quang says it’s to ease the guilt of losing the war. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When my parents were children, there had been a war between the southerners and the Arab Muslims who dominated the government in Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Allies decided that Germany needed to be rebuilt, with a democratic government and a strong economy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If prices were too high, the government sold some of the grain from its storehouses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At first, the government thought he was a big-time dealer since he’d bought more than any person could use for themselves in a year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The rebels—those who were fighting against the government. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that’s beautiful.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am in agreement one hundred per cent with those racists who say that no government laws ever can force brotherhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ian Smith’s white government was bolstered by the South African Defense Force, and the ANC regarded the battle in Zimbabwe as an extension of our struggle at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still called the Capitol Building, for it was once a state capital, back when there were still states—in those days before government became obsolete. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“So you wanted to come here because of the South Korean government.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

You could work for the government and get good retirement. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we win, who would be in charge of the government?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Peruvian government’s clinics and doctors, who had never warmed to Socios en Salud, began characterizing the organization as a group of interfering outsiders. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike Dasch, who was an overtalkative and irritating witness at his trial, the government had asked Burger to be a witness at other trials. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Many of those who took the time to write accused the government of violating the suffragists’ right to free speech. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Let the government worry about that, I thought, and started to work on the unopened buckets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last months our government paychecks have dwindled from almost nothing to nothing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the government’s job to take care of people who can take care of themselves?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The government asked for an “honest commitment to peace” and I pointed out that our readiness to negotiate was exactly that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, this was a blow to the government, for they now had to go back to the drawing board in the case they were calling the trial to end all trials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 12,1986, the government imposed a State of Emergency in an attempt to keep a lid on protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They insisted that the ANC must renounce violence and give up the armed struggle before the government would agree to negotiations — and before I could meet President Botha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While many small towns around Atlanta have been absorbed into the city or big county governments, Clarkston has retained its independence. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But in 1790 the Supreme Court was a woefully weak third branch of the federal government and the principle of judicial review had yet to be established. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“This is no banquet. These aren’t government representatives. This is no surprise party. Look at their eyes. Listen to them!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, most of those planes were taken into government service. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I stepped in and said that this government was too strong and too ruthless to be brought down in such a manner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I thought he had a big important government job." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The states had worried so much about a future autocratic president that the federal government had inadvertently created a constitutional crisis for the one currently in office. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The government people waited by the door while my siblings each packed a small bag of clothes and things. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As Jefferson remembered it later, “we took leave, and he never after that said one word to me on the subject or ever consulted me as to any measure of the government.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Second, we have arranged for a provisional government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When cotton became readily available there in the eighteenth century, it grabbed so much of the textile market that French woolmakers persuaded the government to ban the new fiber. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But their leadership voted not to challenge Roosevelt’s order allowing the government to “exclude” people—namely, Nikkei—from “military areas”—namely, the West Coast, where most of the Nikkei lived. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Articles had appeared in nearly every major newspaper blasting the government’s callous disregard for life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He always, always, always said how he respected Ali for standing up to the government, even though they put him in jail. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

On August 6, in Pretoria, the ANC and the government signed what became known as the Pretoria Minute, in which we agreed to suspend the armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recounted in detail the numerous times the government had used the law to hamper my life, career, and political work, through bannings, restrictions, and trials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This silence is not the result of an absence of research,” Flerov warned his government. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She didn't talk much about her family, but from what Pong had managed to learn, it was at least as complicated as starting a new government. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Anti-Turkish rebels set off a car bomb in Ankara, so the Turkish government shut the border,” the man says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1936 the federal government had spent $33 million on research and development, accounting for 15 percent of the $218 million advanced by all sources, including industry, academia, and philanthropic foundations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

During those chaotic years, as the basic functioning of Kim Jong Il’s government stalled, think tank experts in the West were writing books with doomsday titles such as The End of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"The Nazi government is not the first unjust government in the world," he says. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Academia was just beginning to sense the United States government’s potential heft as a patron of scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The chief preaches and revers the achievements of the Angkar, the philosophy of the government to build this perfect agrarian society where there are no crimes, no deceit, no trickery, and no Western influence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s multiracial sports policy mandated that if blacks were accepted to any white clubs, separate showers, locker rooms, restaurants and bathrooms had to be created for them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first message he received from the government was a threat to shoot Colonel Gerineldo Márquez within forty-eight hours if he did not withdraw with his forces to the eastern frontier. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But she remained incensed by the NSA’s 1958 raid, and she continued to press for the government to return the books and papers it had taken then. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Dutch government in exile broadcasts through that channel sometimes; we call it Radio Orange. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Was the story important enough to justify defying the government? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He takes my hands, lacing his fingers with mine, and says, “The faction that controls the government. Yes.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After World War II, the government found itself with a tremendous surplus of ammonium nitrate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Derby spoke movingly of the American form of government, with freedom and justice and opportunities and fair play for all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The executive branch of the government—Vice President Johnson and the cabinet—had survived the night; no other assassinations had occurred. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the 1950s the government accused them of being spies and executed them,” Jonah says, his hair swinging around him as he speaks excitedly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Pretoria government paid no attention to such facts in its mad pursuit of its homeland nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We well knew that there was great concern in the outside world about our situation and that it was in the government’s interest to show that we were not being mistreated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These noble and selfish functions are inextricably linked, although some governments emphasize much more of one function than of the other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Our government is jailing us because of our faith,” a voice from behind me says. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The markets bustled with activity; the taverns and coffeehouses buzzed with conversation; the federal, state, and local governments took up the business they had left off in September. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Jason and Leo touched down in a big piazza lined with white marble government buildings and outdoor cafés. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

While Booth and Herold tarried, the government pursued them with new energy. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not the same as the war that was going on now, between the rebels and the government. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The national government placed him in the category of a bandit and put a price of five thousand pesos on his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The news switched to a story about South Africa—blacks rioting there and dying wholesale in battles with police over the policies of the white supremacist government. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The German people also lost their right to privacy, so government officials could read their mail, listen to their telephone conversations, and search their homes without needing a warrant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As a government-appointed chief, he was eligible for a stipend as well as a portion of the fees the government levied on the community for vaccination of livestock and communal grazing land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the Mexican government that betrayed and killed Pancho Villa earlier that year of 1923. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

However, while businessmen saw their usefulness, the local governments hated them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Not now. They’ve been registered in Albany. These two little birds are quite famous and are under the protection of the United States government.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The only time you can count on it is when they're airing the Games or some important government message on television that it's mandatory to watch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We have no illusions about the countermeasures your government might take,” I wrote. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stated the matter simply: if I recognized the legitimacy of the Transkei government and was willing to move there, my sentence would be dramatically reduced. proposal, and again I turned him down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most marked manifestation of the trend was an enhanced standard of living for Rad Lab scientists placed on the government payroll as consultants. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After leaving government service, he had decided to return to the Rand Corporation, where he’d worked before joining the Pentagon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed weird to me that the government specifically chose the Colorado forest instead of a military base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The refugee camps were run by foreign aid groups, but it was the government that permitted them to operate. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After the army’s attack, which lasted for days and ended in many deaths, Fazlullah made one of his strangest announcements: He declared war on the government and called for people to rise up in violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Tensions rise as the Southland enters the third day of the Tap-Out, but government officials say relief is on the way.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The situation looked very grim, and any understanding that had been achieved with the government seemed lost. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janey, the wife of Michigan senator Philip Hart, was familiar with the workings of Washington, DC, and she knew many of the big names in government. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am surprised at the conditions that the government wants to impose on me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, the South African government began making minor reforms in an attempt to quell international protest over the atrocities and human rights abuses of apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All their belongings had been looted by townspeople and the Nazis, and now the government had taken over his father’s fish cannery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Writing about how corrupt the civilian government was, as if they think the military will not be corrupt. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really struck Ellsberg was that government leaders seemed to have learned nothing from three years of failure in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to impose its policy of allotment. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lawrence thereby presided over a transformation of American science as profound as any change inspired purely by scientific discovery: the launch of peacetime government patronage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s note was brief and to the point: What, he wanted to know, was I discussing with the government? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On stage a few minutes later, Leslie Groves handed Oppenheimer a scroll— a certificate of thanks from the government to Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos staff. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government rules about organic food allow companies to make organic high-fructose corn syrup—words I never expected to see combined. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He gave government positions to forty family members including his wife, Elena, who required forty homes and a commensurate supply of fur and jewels. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mom managed other people’s money, doing complicated calculations to figure out how much they owed the government. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interim government was going to hold the first free elections in thirty years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was a PR exercise, they say, a Potemkin demonstration by the Chimor government that it was actively fighting El Nino. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here in Kabul, women taught at the university, ran schools, held office in the government. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Students all over the country, unions, and professional schools are going to join us. The government may fall,” Sebastian Gomez commented. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And without his plan and his leadership—these two items seemed inextricably connected in his own mind—the government and inevitably the national union itself must collapse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Black told Gold that the Soviet government had abolished private property and was making all the decisions about what the economy should produce, and how goods should be distributed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Security Council intervened in South African affairs, blaming the government for the shootings and urging it to initiate measures to bring about racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the country students were rioting over civil rights, Vietnam, social justice, and government cover-ups involving tapping phones and secret wars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Schools, local governments, and private companies used it to fire, expel, or exclude anyone considered disloyal to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty-six years I worked for different groups, promoting world government, setting up conferences on pacifism, raising money, stuffing envelopes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha, ha. I guess Papa’s new job with the government does have some perks. Plus, it’s kind of a gift before I . . .” She bit her bottom lip. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I sat watching the watery play of light upon Douglass' portrait, thinking how magical it was that he had talked his way from slavery to a government ministry, and so swiftly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barred from the ballot box, Southern blacks had no say in electing government officials, the times, they were a-changin’. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This was remarkable, and I assumed it reflected a great deal of nervousness about the prospect of secret talks between myself and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Dalton tried to avoid all honors, he was elected to the Royal Society against his wishes, showered with medals, and given a handsome government pension. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The only evidence for it comes from a few memos in her files, showing that she was recruited for another government job in November 1949. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Unlike Zaire or Paraguay, Japan and the other new powers were able to exploit the transistor quickly because their populations already had a long history of literacy, metal machinery, and centralized government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “There’s no better way to look out for families than to make sure the government remembers the needs of children, women, and poor people. Who better to speak for children than women?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The combination of this business, her father’s checks, and assistance from the Canadian government gave them more than enough to live on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite repeated assurances from consulate staff, he could not believe he was really under the protection of the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were other times when I’d be awestruck by the white magnolias blooming outside, the everyday bustle of government business, the majesty of a military welcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The only true worid solution today is governments guided by true religion—of the spirit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government, they say, just wants you to pay a lot of money and tell a judge you are very sorry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The mere fact that the government was engaged in negotiations at all was a sign that they did not have the strength to sustain apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s good enough for the U.S. government, it’s good enough for us.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The original village was submerged when a government dam was built in 1956. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The government men who were always coming around, they were always talking to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that people are so discontent they are taking their anger out on the government officers’ families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s father was right: Lord Nugent had been lord chancellor, but that had been under a previous government, a more liberal body than the present one, and ruling at a more liberal time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could reimburse the government for all the people and property he had destroyed and still have enough money left over to continue buying Egyptian cotton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Acheson’s position was harassed enough without giving McCarthy the opportunity to announce that our government let radicals protected by U.S. passports set back the American way of life. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s true! Land speculators are just spoiling prices for everybody. And the speculators are guys in government. We have serious problems in this country,” Ahmed said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Principalities of this type are usually endangered when they are about to change from a civil government into an absolute form of government. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The government has control now. People are more aware, and they are rejecting these radical elements.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Firsdy, they were brought in under the auspices of the government, and second, we were aware that the Telegraph was a conservative newspaper unlikely to be sympathetic to our cause. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the talented but malevolent destroyer of republican government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Imagine that you are a government official charged with procuring the funds to fight one of two proven killers: terrorist attacks and heart disease. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Although the ANC had called for talks with the government for decades, we had never been confronted with the actual prospect of such talks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government seemed prepared to wait indefinitely; their thinking was that the longer we waited, the more support we would lose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites had arrived, imposed centralized government, and brought material goods whose value New Guineans instantly recognized, ranging from steel axes, matches, and medicines to clothing, soft drinks, and umbrellas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If that happens, then the government has every right to force you to leave the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The reopening of schools led to an easing of government restrictions on black travel into white neighbourhoods, and I was able to visit the ranch for the first time in two months. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The British government is determined to keep us their slaves. We’re going to fight.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, he had erected a powerful radio transmitter, which he had used to send information to the Japanese government. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Santino Jerke’s uncle had been shot and killed in front of him by uniformed Sudanese government soldiers for stealing a chicken. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ever the political pugilist who felt obliged to answer every bell, Adams refused to back away from his belief that the new American government needed a strong executive presence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But government can make you feel so small and mean that it takes some doing to build back a sense of self-importance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was because even though the war was over, the government wanted to control every last thing they did, until the last possible moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since I could remember, all my life in fact, there had been these discussions and arguments and debates about whether we ought to obey His Majesty’s government or whether we should rebel. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government didn’t like the idea of women fighting in frontline combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the Sunday night broadcast ended than the demands for government action began. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Through an interpreter, the judge explained that the hearing was about whether he wished to fight the government’s plan to deport him to Mexico as soon as his sentence was finished. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he, like many others in Odessa, resented the federal government’s coming in and telling good, hardworking people how they should live and who their children should go to school with. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haupt's family understood that he "was working for the German government in some capacity." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Battle at Fallen Timbers and its aftermath were evidence that the federal government would not hesitate to use both regular and irregular warfare to get the lands it wanted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My farthest and final run is out to the government town-houses that they just built on Hammer Lane. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everything was falling into place, I thought as I strolled into my first-ever student government meeting and looked for my soon-to-be-girlfriend’s best friend. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PAC decided to boycott the talks, accusing the ANC and the National Party of conspiring together to set up a multiracial government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news spread first along the mission grapevine and through government employees and among the diplomats at cocktail parties, and finally the rumors began to reach Europe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous the way she was speaking out against the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Norte Chico, Haas told me, government seems not to have arisen from the need for mutual defense, as philosophers have often speculated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This seems to be no longer true, for government agencies channel only as many laborers as are needed, and some kind of minimum wage is maintained. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electronic computers were rare jewels, their million-dollar-plus price tags affordable only by large research universities and government institutions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then, as if he were staking me to a public challenge, he added, “It is therefore not the South Africa government which now stands in the way of Mr. Mandela’s freedom. It is he himself.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the Conservative government, he would say, with the backing of the Liberals, was reforming the calendar so that every president could remain in power for a hundred years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The government’s enormous role in research, especially in nuclear physics, made many scientists uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government offered very generous terms and incentives to relocate to the big towns, mortgages and tax relief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I never quite knew about my heritage, or the positions that my parents had in the government, until we started talking about my culture in Ms. Gruwell’s class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But this was only a temporary measure; the government would not let a few illegalities stand in their way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The industrial food chain costs each and every one of us: in government spending, in pollution, in global warming, and in our health. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What has our government done to make life easier for the alaskan eskimos? look it up for tomorrow!!! The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But it took a few weeks before the interim civilian government announced that it would release all prisoners of conscience, and weeks more for our lawyers to get Jaja on the list. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The citizenry grew its own food and made its own clothes, or obtained them through their lineages, or picked them up in government warehouses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If the government wants to hide somebody, there’s probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You got all the government money—we got to get rid of you,” one of the men said to Ziaty. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s full of communists and agitators, who want to bring down the government. That Luperon mess, they were in back of it.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the other one, the one that taught history and government, said they'd better be running along. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The government was blocking the negotiations and at the same time waging a covert war against our people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although the majority criticized Welles and his program, others urged against government action as punishment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They hung about that red staircase like clerks in a government office. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before European settlement, the mainland United States was home to hundreds of Native American tribes and languages and came under control of a single government only within the last hundred years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"We're one of the biggest outfits in the business. Make a lot of paint for the government." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle s house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of committing crimes against civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For him, being conservative meant supporting extremely limited government and states’ rights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He knows what I suspect, that I think the government may have killed our parents intentionally. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Panicked, the British government took MacMillan’s prescriptions to heart and, among other reforms, proposed a series of “allisland” scholarships for academically minded students to go to private high schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But before the election of an assembly, it was necessary to have an interim government that could oversee the transition until a new government was elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they began, as he knew they invariably would, to criticize the government—money stolen, contracts uncompleted, infrastructure left to rot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Both the government and the ANC were working on two tracks: military and political. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer muttered “nation of intractable sycophancy” when the nightly news started on NTA, no longer held long monologues about how Babangida’s government had reduced Nigerians to imprudent idiots, no longer teased her mother. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mother could not believe his generosity until Brother Quang says the American government gives sponsors money. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With English out of the way, he was taking government and the electives of sociology, computer math, photography, and food science. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the Nazis had another mass-murder program already underway: the extermination of Europe’s Jews and other “enemies” of the Nazi government. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days in a borrowed office, working on a study of recent international crises that he hoped would be useful to government policymakers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The men who came in the night for Beatrice’s husband began to beat him when he said he didn’t have access to government money. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The government reported that five inmates had been killed and that fourteen had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Anyone apprehensive about the encroaching powers of the federal government must have felt a palpable sense of reassurance that the seat of power was virtually invisible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Powerful real estate interests dominated the city government even more completely in the 1960s than in the 1930s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1996 the federal government estimated that kudzu had swallowed seven million acres. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Taking full advantage of all the archived information that was never more than a few mouse clicks away, Jesse had strong ideas and theories about everything—the size of government, genetic engineering, gun control. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the tracking had predicted, that young family and hundreds of others had somehow figured out the government was hiding something out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Referring a defendant to treatment, rather than sending him or her to prison, may well be the most prudent choice—saving government resources and potentially saving the defendant from a lifetime of addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if that were true or not, but Henrik had an irritating way of sounding official since his father was connected with the government His face was round and he was chubby. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Bureau had acted on this notion, Regina Fischer might have actually become a counteragent, a spy, for the U.S. government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. representative at the U.N., wrote a letter saying that his government would do everything it could to prevent a death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mark I was what brought Lawrence and Alvarez to Livermore on their scouting visit, Ernest again embracing his wartime role as impresario of a partnership of government, academia, and industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if it’s true. Eduardo at the bank swears that his brother saw a document with a government seal on it discussing patria potto tad. But who knows?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s a law that says you must go to school...and I guess you should. You are nine years old. And I must go to war. The government is fighting somewhere.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuttering, Garcia managed to make his plea: he had completed high school in San Lucas and wanted a recommendation to the police academy and a government subsidy to pay for his studies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Khmer Rouge government also bans the practice of religion. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the role of chief was a venerable and esteemed one, it had, even seventy-five years ago, become debased by the control of an unsympathetic white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the men were, as the manager recalled, “in a naked state,” there was something about them that screamed government agent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With its hopes of preserving the Southern way of life buoyed, Dixie mobilized to oppose the federal government’s latest intrusion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

How on earth was his government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At roughly the same time, the government introduced the deceptively named Extension of University Education Act, another leg of grand apartheid, which barred nonwhites from racially “open” universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mercenary is a soldier for hire, who is not loyal to any particular government, group, or ideology. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were addressed to government officials: the attorney general and the secretary of labor of the United States; a Supreme Court justice; and two of the nation’s leading financiers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Why do they want to live outside the government’s influence?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The government instead began to mount one of the most intimidating displays of force ever assembled in the country’s history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We checked in at the little hotel, washed, and then went to visit the regional commissioner, the head of government there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Again, racial equality was being forced upon the South by the federal government, and by 1956, Southern white opposition to desegregation mushroomed into a vicious backlash. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Peru was in the midst of a civil war between the government and theShining Path guerilla movement, and on midnight one New Year’s Eve, while Father Jack was saying Mass, the pharmacy was blown up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Another challenge to the Rad Lab’s domination of government patronage came from a new university lab under development at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It would look bad for the American consul to be hosting a man who has only just been pardoned by the government. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

What the warders did not tell us was that Vorster resigned as a result of press revelations about the Department of Information’s misuse of government funds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was a crime to talk about escaping from Camp 14, it was not against the rules to fantasize about what life would be like if the government were to set you free. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When Farmer flew back to Lima, Bayona accompanied him to a small government health clinic next to Father Jack’s former church. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Though he resolutely opposed apartheid and refused to allow KwaZulu to become an “independent” homeland as the government wished, he was a thorn in the side of the democratic movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one should wonder if, in speaking of principalities that are completely new as to their ruler and form of government, I cite the greatest examples. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I read from The Federalist Papers to prepare for a quiz I had the next day in government, but my mind kept returning to its continuous loop: Guthrie and Whitman and New York and Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even before the government’s efforts to remove it, Sophiatown held a symbolic importance for Africans disproportionate to its small population. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the threatening insults from their northern brethren in the government, pay them little attention. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order for us to begin talks, they said, the ANC must make some compromise so that the government would not lose face with its own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the government kept records of all the colored arrivals, perhaps among the many names was that of her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The government gave us a large place to live in, much bigger than anyone I know. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A chiefdom’s one or two levels of administration are greatly multiplied in states, as anyone who has seen an organizational chart of any government knows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You still think my own government will abandon me,” said Spurge with a little bitterness. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For well over a decade, his spies had been infiltrating the United States, burrowing their way into private companies, schools, laboratories, and even government offices. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The verdict was an em-barrassment to the government, both at home and abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is a little complicated, but it boils down to this: The price of corn is kept low by government policies. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was because of such threats, I said, that it was absolutely critical to set up a transitional government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making matters worse, thirty-one states and the federal government subscribe to the practice of lifetime felon exclusion from juries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I defended the proposal, saying the purpose of the armed struggle was always to bring the government to the negotiating table, and now we had done so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I added that it was apparent the government had a double agenda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The treaty stated that in exchange for vast swaths of Muscogee land that would become part of what is now Georgia, the US government would pay $1,500 each year to the Muscogee Nation. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message that affiliation with any of them might jeopardize one’s job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had worked on government orders, camera lenses, and microscopes, earning twenty-five dollars a week. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Japanese military government had stolen it from their own hungry people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield’s assassination by a disgruntled job seeker spurred the public into demanding an end to the spoils system of hiring government employees. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The government's November 1954 draft syllabus was a retreat from the original notion of modeling the school system on tribal foundations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, government of every kind was almost wholly vacated. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The U.S. government, contending that many Osage were unable to handle their money, had required the Office of Indian Affairs to determine which members of the tribe it considered capable of managing their trust funds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees "introduced bills calling for sweeping reorganization of the entire intelligence apparatus of the government." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The government harassed civilians until they fled the fertile valleys—land the government began distributing to its cronies. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor of government, takes the extreme view that Mexicans will not assimilate and that the separate culture they are developing threatens the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The governor scooped up the money and pledged his full co-operation together with all the extensive resources of government at his disposal —and he loaned them two Land Rovers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you are not an agent of the Nigerian government? It is you white people who allowed Gowon to kill innocent women and children.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We were told that these people were unfit to live productive lives, that they could not help build Germany up, that they were worthless, and that they were using the government’s money.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls,” I said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the eyes of the Nazi government, these people were “useless eaters” and a burden to the taxpayer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, in government, I feel like there are tiny bugs crawling all over my body. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The NEC believed that the government was behind the violence and that the violence was upsetting the climate for negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sugar Act actually reduced the Molasses Act tax by half, but this time the British government intended to strongly enforce the new measure. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He instructed York to pack his bags for a trip east to quietly sound out scientists and government officials about locating this new group at Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even better than a recognized government: phone reception. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

With all the government officials, doctors, scientists, and church people present, all seeking the truth as to whether Bobby was Jinky’s father, it seemed impossible that the exhumation was performed improperly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a government facility. I’m guessing terrorists don’t sweat the details.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In 1933 the Nazi government seized power in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and by the mid-1950s the Germans were building an impressive modern air force of their own. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Is because I speak out against the government they want me quiet.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we see, the mere possession of two legs was no guarantee that a magical creature could or would take an interest in the affairs of wizard government. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he filled out all kinds of forms—from the bookstore and from the government for taxes—they officially took his picture. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He'd been slowly growing restless in Springfield, frustrated by the meandering pace of state government, convinced he could accomplish more and better in Washington. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He knew how government worked, how vicious politics was, and how people with special interests tried to influence and manipulate lawmakers with words or favors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apartheid, despite its intricacies and precision, didn’t know what to do with them, so the government said, “Eh, we’ll just call ’em black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He thought he needed protection from the U.S. government, which just might have him assassinated instead of extraditing him and bringing him home for a costly and unpopular trial. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The West Area Computers were ammunition for both fronts of the conflict, yet they were one of the best-kept secrets in the federal government. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she returned, the US government gave her a piece of paper saying that this land, kwe’e sikehfjn, right here where we sit, belonged to her.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Coetsee said the government would like to appoint a committee of senior officials to conduct private discussions with me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, few blacks even tried to register, and the local government remained securely in white hands. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if every single man, woman, and child in Texas owned a farm—and then imagine that every single one of those farms was suddenly taken away by the government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The government must've found something at the hospital and wants to lure me into a trap. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The government said how could they tell whose bones the cow’s were? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the escalating black rebellion, the government still refused to talk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution is suspended and the regional government and elected assemblies are hereby dissolved. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Soviet press and government seemed conflicted about the presence of women in space, however. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell them I work for the government doing energy contracts,” he said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The police refused to offer any protection to the protesters, who now were picketing in violation of a government order. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Evacuation centers are being set up throughout Southern California in school gymnasiums, churches, and malls—but there seems to be a staggering number of people who are choosing not to cooperate with these government mandates.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In October, Joe published a paper in which he wrote that negotiations with the government were not armistice talks in which we could dictate terms to a defeated enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within weeks of coming to power, the Nationalist government pardoned Robey Leibbrandt, the wartime traitor who had organized uprisings in support of Nazi Germany. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The national government learned something because of the yellow fever epidemic as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Monge’s work was so important to the military that much of it was made into a state secret by the revolutionary government and by the Napoleonic government that succeeded it soon afterward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Where not to work if you’re a hacker who aspires to stay off government radar: the Apple Genius Bar. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There was always bread and commodity cheese you could get from the government. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He introduced himself as a physics professor who now worked for the government in Washington, D.C. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government had given them no clear warning. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For twenty years, over the entire life span of the revolutionary war and the experiment with republican government, Washington had stood at the helm of the ship of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This means, for example, that a woman who knew that her husband occasionally smoked pot could have her car forfeited to the government because she allowed him to use her car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Liberals may try to form a Sonia said that the Liberals might try coalition government. to form a coalition government. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In February 1976, the Tamil Nadu government was brought down by Delhi. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean the government. Why would they hurt their own people?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was the government that provoked violence by employing violence to meet our nonviolent demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This allows the accused the opportunity to make the government prove to a judge that their arrest and imprisonment is justified. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“It does not serve the Bantu to learn history and science because he is primitive,” the government said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The government retaliated by banning all gatherings relating to my imprisonment, but this restriction was ignored by the liberation movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the floor outside her door, listening as she called the Ministry of Environment, then various other government contacts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first of many secret meetings between Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, a high-ranking member of the North Vietnamese government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In other words, Haupt would be obligated to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Three years earlier, President Lyndon B. Johnson had sent troops to aid the South Vietnamese government in its fight against the Communist North Vietnamese. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the face of this mass action, Mr. de Klerk said that if the ANC made the country ungovernable, the government might be forced to consider some unpleasant options. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you sell your cotton to the government?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The government is telling everyone to evacuate the cities, the man said, and he was taking his family south. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of justification the program was launched, with the state providing the manpower and supervising the operation, the federal government providing equipment and additional men, and the communities paying for the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Word of the assassination has brought a number of government officials to the Petersen House. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We know they’re the ones who will go to university, take over the family business, run the government, run the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I described our stay-away of 1961 as a last resort after the government showed no signs of taking any steps to either talk with us or meet our demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Juba and in other cities students protested against the government, and some were killed in the riots. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had not they locked arms together as “Publius” to justify the need for a national government with sovereign power over the states? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government was charging all one hundred fifty-six of us with high treason and a countrywide conspiracy to use violence to overthrow the present government and replace it with a Communist state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their valley and crops flooded, the farmers instantly became “the water refugees,” forced to give up their land with little or no compensation from the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Back in France, the government that had abolished slavery was in the process of destroying itself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

From what Mark could gather, the group had brought together as many government agencies as they could from around the world. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Hunger had to be very high up on any government list of priorities. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the United States, the Soviet government expected women to work outside of the home, and by the 1950s, many Soviet women were pursuing scientific and technical careers. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The police department. Maybe people in the local government.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Well, it had some help—from the U.S. government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is these government checks, or subsidies, that keep corn and soybean prices low. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You give in on little things, and soon you’re serving in his government, marching in his parades, sleeping in his bed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many remarked on how small and good-looking she was, calling her “a pretty government scryptanalyst,” “a pretty middle-aged woman,” “a smiling lady in a frilly pink dress.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Through Joe, I enlisted the efforts of white Communist Party members who had resolved on a course of violence and had already executed acts of sabotage like cutting government telephone and communication lines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s been a lot of discussion among scholars and military experts as to why Stalin’s government allowed this to happen. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The government controls all the industries. We’re going to have to make some adjustments.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Pennsylvania legislature realized that the state government had ceased to exist when its members scampered from the city in panic. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think that government-owned stores are free of fourolds? That statement itself is fourolds. Didn’t you see all the shop signs that were knocked down? Most of those stores belonged to the government.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countless similar oddities result from our conventional ways of measuring, reporting, and com paring periodic quantities, whether they be the monthly cash flow of a government or the regular daily fluctuations in body temperature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To propitiate the North, they fixed the pre-Independence elections in favor of the North and wrote a new constitution that gave the North control of the central government. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the government’s iron fist did descend, they were not prepared. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I happen to be the pit boss of that mine and I have a right to know what’s going on. Why would the government want to know if there’s metal in the water?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I rose and said, “My Lord, it is not I, but the government that should be in the dock. I plead not guilty.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government was then engaged in a massive effort to make a success of its separate development policy, and “quasi-independent” homelands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she’s just being neighborly or if she’s on the government’s payroll, but she shows up twice every day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The German government has so-called beer purity laws that specify exactly what can go into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a man makes his fortune in oil or government contracts, in chemicals or wholesale groceries, his first act is to buy a ranch, the largest he can afford, and to run some cattle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He looks more like a blues musician than a government employee. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was on a tear, promising the crowd if he got to be president, the government was going to come in and set everything right, even run things if it had to. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the encroaching darkness and my pessimism about the government’s policies, I was thinking about the future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With very few exceptions, Africans at the time did not enjoy private tide to land in South Africa but were tenants paying rent annually to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to reach out to the global pharmaceutical companies, to governments, to foundations, and educate them that all lives had equal value. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

From the ruins, the Bolshevik Party would become the Communist Party, and Lenin would emerge as the head of a new nation with a new form of government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Adams tried to laugh himself out of the monarchical morass, claiming that he simply wanted to assure that the executive branch of the government enjoyed a fighting chance against the awesome powers of the legislature. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They are also given the lie: that their memories were erased because of a freak accident, and that they were on the verge of lobbying the government for equality for GDs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We didn’t want to take out loans and then have to pay off the government for twenty years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I figure the scientists are working on solutions. And the government. If we get electricity back, that’ll make things better right there.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The government gave it to her because she’s old and blind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom was the hostile class, whose members were suspected of opposing the government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The United States government wishes you well and I wish you well.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there really was no need to reimburse the government at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Corn-based food does offer cheap calories, if you don’t count the billions the government spends to support cheap corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And it will have to find more money, much more—the kind of money that only federal governments possess—without losing any of its own initiative. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a number of occasions, tribesmen and kinsmen from the Transkei visited me in Orlando to complain about chiefs collaborating with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would make my way back to Johannesburg, but when I chose to, not when the government wanted me to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government might be able to steal our lives from us, but they can’t steal our thoughts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she stopped before the picture she had painted at the free government art class for school kids last winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had been willing to lay aside that conviction during the war, when national security required his participation in the highest councils of government planning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Benin Home had once been called Approve School and been a government- run juvenile center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They know only what they’re taught, they see only the information that’s made available to them. And who controls all that? The government.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One of the main reasons it failed was because the federal government never allotted anywhere near enough resources to make it work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“In those days, a government denial was all it took to make a reality disappear.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The southern people were angry with the Arab government about a number of things. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say he’s an authority sent by the government.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When spo-radic pushes came from the federal government to change the status quo, to break down the boundary of the railroad tracks, they were met with swift and well-organized resistance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say all Jews are being resettled. It is government policy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the busiest corridors of the Stadhall, in full view of more than a dozen government officials, the Zemeni trade ambassador had stepped into a washroom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently there will be. It says here that the governments have finally reorganized themselves in response to the Emergency.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the world, volcanoes erupted, governments rose and collapsed and bartered for hostages, rockets exploded, walls fell. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He and his people were out there, marching, demonstrating, picketing, putting pressure on the government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Washington simply did not have control of the government and was inadvertently lending credibility to the treacheries being hatched all around him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Aside from field agents, the other main component of the government’s Prohibition enforcement effort was the Coast Guard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The federal government would take on—which is to say, assume—all the accumulated debts of the states, most of which had their origins during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And she tells me about how the government burned it to the ground. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The third party he presumed responsible was the United States government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Any agreement would hinge on the Americans reimbursing us for the booster," Zhu Tao said, "and the State Council would likely want political favors from the US government." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the government was now scared of the might of the African people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was there, at the request of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile, to give a series of lectures on world democracy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The General said that once he had proof that El Jefe was out of the way, he, Pupo, would take control of the government and hold free elections. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s trolling for government funds took place against the backdrop of a fierce battle in Washington over legislation to bring atomic energy under civilian control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And there could be no life and no peace in Southern Sudan for anyone with dark skin who opposed the national government. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is explaining that the new government will be returning the compound to us, that we’ll have to decide if we want to sell the property or keep it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We sought to prove to the court that the government’s documentation was often incorrect and that many orders to leave were therefore illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why shouldn’t the Muslims be subsidized to save millions of dollars a year for the government and the cities? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was unjust, he had by then decided, “and was acquiesced in merely from a fear of disunion, while our government was still in its infant state.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The family only gets by because of the paycheck George’s wife, Peggy, brings home from her job— and because of a subsidy check from the U.S. government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any rumblings around about somebody trying to sabotage the Saigon government’s attitude certainly have no, absolutely no credibility as far as I’m concerned.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The speaker had become more violent than before and his remarks were about the government. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my father said, “Will the government give you a job when you’re finished with school?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That there could be trials without witnesses, that her government could make people disappear. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Navy didn’t want government code breaking anywhere near the spotlight. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The government has departments to deal with the special- interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following year, the government passed two more laws that directly attacked the rights of the Coloureds and Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even some high government officials have made appearances occasionally. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

By my reckoning, it was the sixth conditional offer the government had made for my release in the past ten years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we won’t get American visas. It took Abu years to get his. And your government is even more strict about letting young people into the country.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the experiment would turn out, and he came from a long line of rabble-rousers distrustful of the government, but Sam was hopeful. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My English teacher flips out because the government is demanding we take yet another test to assess our reading skills, because we’re seniors and pretty soon we might have to read or something. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Until the emergence of Napoleon as dictator, the French government, eventually called the Directory, was a misnamed coalition of ever-shifting political factions inherently incapable of either coherence or direction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were living in the housing project then, some government- built apartments for people without a lot of rent money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were set free, however, within three months because of the fact that the government and the banana company could not reach an agreement as to who should feed them in jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Not long before, I had written to Coetsee pressing him for a meeting to discuss talks between the ANC and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course it looks to Terry like Molly is just twiddling her thumbs, letting the time slide like a government worker punching a clock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A US government artist’s rendering from September 1984 of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which envisioned a network of space-based lasers and other weaponry designed to intercept Soviet ICBMs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that accurate figures could make a fundamental difference started with double-entry bookkeeping in the thirteenth century; it then spread to the sciences, and outwards from both accountancy and science to government. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A group of militants that had been taking an active stance against the government had now taken hostages and hidden inside the madrasa of Lai Masjid, or the Red Mosque. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The taxes got paid and the votes got counted and the agencies of government did their work briskly and politely. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should the government need it and for what purpose? Who would ride on my bicycle, my beautiful black Wanderer touring bicycle? How could a bicycle be used in defending the state?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But my father is a watchmaker. He’s not a government worker. Why would they arrest him?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

To be exact— instead of the government buying all the extra corn, or loaning farmers money so they could store it, it just paid farmers part of the cost of growing it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“We all knew that within the government, and not one of us told the press or the public,” Ellsberg said later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My parents have a house there,” Hina explained, “and they’re waiting for us. The West Coast government isn’t going to turn us back over to the camps.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

If they did, the suit would still be heard and decided in Alabama, but the judges would represent the United States government, not the state of Alabama or the city of Montgomery. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In 144 school districts in eleven Southern and border states, desegregation happened in a peaceful manner, with no need for the federal government to intervene. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even in democracies today, crucial knowledge is available to only a few individuals, who control the flow of information to the rest of the government and consequently control decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom started working, she still lived with my grandmother in Soweto, the township where the government had relocated my family decades before. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The government wanted to control the movements of all Africans, and such control was far more difficult in freehold urban townships, where blacks could own property, and people came and went as they pleased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed a preposterous way to confront the colossal power of the United States government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They suggested she was making things up to help the government’s legal team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a sharp contrast to Cuba, where anyone who spoke out against the government or Fidel was considered a traitor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In addition, it called for a national day of work stoppage in protest against the racist and reactionary policies of the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeide and Baba had a fabric store in Cuba, but Fidel Castro took it away when he decided everything should be owned by the government. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Companies needing the administration’s help to finance their credit agreed to sit down and talk with strikers and accept government help in reaching an agreement. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Midway through 2009, my small team and I began coordinating with West Wing policy people and meeting with experts inside and outside government to formulate a plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He answered their concerns one by one, enumerating their rights and explaining how to wring justice out of various government agencies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

State governments are broadly shielded from recovery for their employees' misconduct unless the employee works for an agency that can be sued. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because there’s no way a kid can grow up in an environment where ninety-three percent of the families are on some form of government assistance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first task of these leaders was to punish individual Cherokees who attacked whites, and to deal with the white government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government, in order to keep Africans in the countryside or working in the mines, maintained that Africans were by nature a rural people, ill suited for city life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mom that if she left Dad, she’d be eligible for government aid, which she couldn’t get now because she had an able-bodied husband. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later, China’s imperial government recruited Korean farmers to create a buffer against Russian expansion, and Korea’s Choson Dynasty allowed them to depart legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court, said Wallace, was “stealing little by little as a thief in the night to destroy local government.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this, the government was successful, for the riots poisoned the views of some whites who might otherwise have been sympathetic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Tepper had revealed all the government's super sleuthing, I figured they were still spying on me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court—the one branch of government charged with the responsibility of protecting “discrete and insular minorities” from the excesses of majoritarian democracy and guaranteeing constitutional rights for groups deemed unpopular or subject to prejudice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have a sure-fire plan for cheating the federal government out of six thousand dollars. We can make three thousand dollars apiece without any risk to either of us. Are you interested?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The people behind the Taliban. The real brains of this government, if you can call it that: Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis,” Farid said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The broadcasts consisted of good news for the government and bad news for all its opponents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning the favor, Big Bill appointed black leaders to high-profile positions in government. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bridey’s mother and other people in our lane and lanes beyond will come to the door to ask Dad if he’ll write a letter to the government or a relation in a distant place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the border, Polish authorities deny the Jews entry and detain them in open fields, without shelter, food, or water while the Polish and German governments argue. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo had issued no word on when—or if—he would be released. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Ever since Baltimore and a handful of the other major cities were certified shambler-free more than a year ago, the government has turned its attention to finding a cure. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Competition for the favors of academia, industry, and government was more intense, the qualifications of the judges higher, and the standards of success more exacting than before. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That means the government is helping to pay for our place—the same way they’re paying for my lunch. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The manifesto utterly rejected the notion of trusteeship, the idea that the white government somehow had African interests at heart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my father, she works for the government, but she manages city improvement projects. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He declared to the people that he did not wish to rule over them; he wanted a people’s government where all would be equal. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Park said he lost his position as head of taekwondo training in Pyongyang in 2002, after squabbling with a midlevel apparatchik who apparently snitched on him to higher-ups in the government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government could hardly set the record straight, since it denies that Camp 14 exists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This paper takes advantage of a new trove of government data that helps reliably address the black-white gap. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If you criticize the government, do you worry that you might be seen as a cultural outsider? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the U.S. government feared that anyone who was of Japanese descent living in America could not be trusted. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She understood which levers to pull inside and outside government to make an impact at the scale I envisioned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nali drove through Gallup to the main public library, where Nathan checked out a science-fiction trilogy about kids who were drafted by the government to fight an interstellar war against aliens. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Another man argued, “What does a goyish government have to do with us?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on to work in government as a member of the Russian legislature and deputy chair of the Committee on Defense. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Genly Ai sees that in Orgoreyn, despite the vast visible apparatus of government, nothing is done visibly, nothing is said aloud. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time it was a joint meeting in Berkeley of the AEC, the General Advisory Committee, and the heads of the government labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The government was busily taking measures to prevent anything like the Defiance Campaign from reoccurring. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the government’s case in trouble, prosecutors eventually called a witness who, they believed, could sway the jury in their favor: the bootlegger and former bureau informant Kelsie Morrison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the Jeffersonian version of the story, Adams and Jefferson fought shoulder-to-shoulder against the Tories, served together in Europe as a dynamic team, then returned to serve again in the new national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Desperate to hold on to its young people, the Catholic Church struck an agreement with the Nazi government. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The way the government people reckoned a child’s age was to ask him to lift his arm, reach over the top of his head, and touch his opposite ear. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the previous months, the government had made numerous proposals that fell by the wayside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Dash quite candidly that at the moment we could not defeat the government on the battlefield, but could make governing difficult for them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Landlords filled the apartment complexes through government housing programs and cut back on upkeep, allowing the complexes to fall into disrepair. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

No one was completely sure if their money could be traced back to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I am his junior in life, was his junior in Congress, his junior in the diplomatic line, his junior lately in our civil government.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The conductor asked her for the five-cent fare, and Anthony said in a loud voice, “I am traveling at the expense of the government. Ask him for my fare.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Through her connections in the Soviet government, she managed to get Stalin to approve her position as the commander of a new long-distance bombing regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Despite his history of fighting government regulations, he decided he wanted to do something about texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Others were locals who professed themselves to be Communists and denounced the Americans’ involvement in their government. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The government was never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In May 1991, when I was sixteen years old, the rebels drove the president out of the country and set up a new government that was friendly with Northern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During his first month at Hanawon, he received documents and photo identification that certified his South Korea citizenship, which the government automatically bestows on all those who flee the North. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You get paid to teach government. The first, second, and third amendments to the Constitution. Stuff like that. Why don’t you just dive right in?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Kurnakov, “how do we know that you’re not just an agent of the U.S. government trying to trap me?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gross racial disparities in health, wealth, education, and opportunity should be of no interest to our government, and racial identity should be a private matter, something best kept to ourselves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Had the East German government suddenly put an end to the most notorious symbol of the Cold War in Europe? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear why news about unrest was censored: the government didn’t want whites to panic, or the rest of the world to know about police excesses in dealing with unarmed protesters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time after the birth of their daughter, the unexpected jubilee for Colonel Aureliano Buendía, ordered by the government to celebrate another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, was announced. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Michael’s artsy, Caroline’s into student government, and Andrew’s another one of the scientists’ kids, like Dana. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The government had decided to accelerate the program of “sep-arate development” to show the world that apartheid allowed races their individual “freedom.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the Rivonia Trial still resonated in people’s minds, the government was eager to show the international community that we were being treated properly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Davis is a stool pigeon, an informer and a traitor to the German government. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Customs agents are government workers. They have to take care of the bodies they find.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My goal, though, was to make this about more than government. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then if the African or Asian or South American governments could make more money from tourists going to visit their forests than they could from selling the timber, the future would be much brighter. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I began by speaking about the increasing repressiveness of the government in the wake of the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard reports that I was having secret discussions with the government and he was concerned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He promised, too, that a Confederate state could return to the Union whenever ten percent of its voters should reestablish a loyal Union government within that state. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government promoted the power of traditional leaders as a counterpoint to the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along, the North Vietnamese had been demanding the removal from power of President Thieu’s government in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But we warn those, of any group, who would follow the false doctrine of communistic amalgamation that we will not surrender our system of government. .. our freedom of race and religion.. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The government had awarded me Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And it was to those with a very high IQ, he believed, that “we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Zardari had pledged that the government would cover all my medical costs. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The government urged industries to provide sleeping accommodations for workers so that they would not have to return home during the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Law enforcement agencies are still allowed, through revenue-sharing agreements with the federal government, to keep seized assets for their own use. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those who are “kingpins” are often able to buy their freedom by forfeiting their assets, snitching on other dealers, or becoming paid government informants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The recommendation was controversial, for Jongintaba’s mother was from a lesser house, but my father’s choice was ultimately accepted by both the Thembus and the British government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 16, 1976, fifteen thousand schoolchildren gathered in Soweto to protest the government’s ruling that half of all classes in secondary schools must be taught in Afrikaans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included the Presidential Medal for Merit, then the government’s highest civilian honor, presented by General Groves and Bob Sproul at a Berkeley ceremony in early 1946. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The colonial government in time raised the bounty for adult male scalps, lowered it for adult females, and eliminated it for Indigenous children under age ten. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And it is usually so with governments—not a fact but a small slip of paper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could lie to the American government, then I could con my way through a conversation with some shady college kid. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So Stalin’s government decided to make its own deal with Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the federal government set up the Housing Authority in 1934 to help local governments replace substandard housing, many cities rushed to grab their share of the half-billion-dollar program. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because if there’s one thing I know about the news, it’s that it decides for most people—including the federal government—what is and what isn’t important. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The government, anticipating a man shortage, threw open Civil Service examinations for women workers in the big Thirty-fourth Street post office. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is exactly the reason why wherever people who are anything but white live in this world today, the white man’s governments are finding themselves in deeper and deeper trouble and peril. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe,” she continued, “he was a spy for the government all along and he’s being held captive in Russia or something. Maybe your brother is the most dangerous man on the planet!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Your government will pay,” he said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The separatist governments of the New York and Pennsylvania colonies offered rangers for the project. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Under apartheid, the government built what became known as Bantu schools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they were under siege from settlers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lenin’s vision of a better future for the working poor was so ambitious that he hoped World War I would inspire everyone in Europe to get rid of their old-fashioned governments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Americans agreed to halt the bombing of North Vietnam, and in exchange North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to sit down with representatives of the government of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Protest erupted in Eastern Pondoland, where government henchmen were assaulted and killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks to you, I know all about the different forms of government. Mussolini was a fascist. Franco was a fascist. And Dad says Reagan is a fascist.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of grade six I left Maryvale to go to H. A. Jack Primary, a government school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t include the billions the government spends to subsidize corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Chinese ambassador to the United States attended, along with prominent government officials and civil rights leaders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The attacks have killed hundreds of South Koreans, but they have yet to provoke the electorate into demanding that their government launch a major counterattack. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the country was also formally called Persia until the government changed the name to Iran in 1935. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the big box there were the pictures she had painted at the government free art class. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

These two scandals coming together undermined the credibility of the government and strengthened our hand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it helps their image, it’s tax deductible, and the government backs off some. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We work at this all our lives, and collectively we give it life, but we do not exert the least control over language, not as individuals or committees or academies or governments. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after the Military Pronunciamiento, I drove to the Ministry of Defense in my Congressional car, surprised that no one had come to invite me to participate in the new government. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many shebeens sold brandy, whisky and cartoons—a fermented sorghum brew made by the government, especially for black taste- buds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was provided with an armed chauffeur at government expense. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Once El Patron would have roared with laughter when Tam Lin described how his enemies in the U.S. and Aztlan governments had been disgraced or met with strange accidents. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the aviator Charles Lindbergh, perhaps the most famous man in America, would claim in a speech that Jews had too much influence over “our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I explained to our counterparts that the ANC from its inception in 1912 had always sought negotiations with the government in power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How much longer would it take for my government to get me out of this hellhole?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She and the other suffragists argued that they were being jailed because they had opposed the government and not because they had blocked traffic or stood too long on the sidewalks or city streets. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The colony had first settled there under a land grant from the Mexican government, and the man who led the colonization was a priest, and he was a Luna. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When people thought about cryptography, Pearl Harbor or anything else, he was the man that a lot of the government agencies or...the newspapers thought about.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Malvonne did not know what made her waste a three-cent stamp other than the pleasure of knowing the government was delivering her heat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The excuse given by the government was slum clearance, a smoke screen for the government policy that regarded all urban areas as white areas where Africans were temporary residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the southern highlands were “debatable lands” in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Poachers from Uganda had been coming over Mount Elgon and shooting anything that moved, including people, and now the Kenyan government required that visitors to Mount Elgon be accompanied by armed guards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my mother was blessed that her village was one of the places where a mission school had contrived to stay open in spite of the government’s Bantu education policies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She didn't ask for help from the government even when she worried about how to feed us both. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, most people who had their cash or property seized did not challenge the government’s action, especially because the government could retaliate by filing criminal charges—baseless or not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If you were caught harboring any enemies of the regime even if you yourself were not involved in their schemes, you would be jailed, and everything you owned would become the property of the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government had acknowledged the existence of nonbinary gender. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As Franck would observe later, they were uneasy that the government’s interest in atomic energy might begin and end with its effectiveness as a weapon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The government saw the campaign as a threat to its security and its policy of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the National Woman’s Party learned that representatives of the Russian government were going to visit the White House on June 20, 1917, they decided to turn up the heat again. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

No more running the government from our love seats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Here was evidence that Johnson knew Americans were dying to prop up a South Vietnamese government that was corrupt and unpopular. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Why did government policy change to favor growing more and more corn? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The government’s Public Distribution System, which had fed most North Koreans since the 1950s, collapsed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Chris’s seemingly anomalous political positions were perhaps best summed up by Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

GTE was a telecommunications giant that did a lot of work in the consumer market, as well as for the government, including the military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For the first time in South African history, an exclusively Afrikaner party led the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She accepted money from the government, the government he was trying to overthrow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their accusers tended to be wealthier individuals who controlled local institutions or had ties to the national government, and were sometimes even the women’s landlords or employers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The members of the government persuaded us to allow them to speak last. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The divisions of the 1790s did not match up with Jefferson's categories, either, since those supporting and those opposing a more powerful national government had all been good Whigs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

According to the government Coloureds were neither black nor white, even though some of them were as black as the blackest black man, or as white as the whitest white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We barely discussed the question of a Nationalist government because we did not expect one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mill owner Julian Carr went so far as to implement at his Durham Hosiery Mills a system of “industrial democracy” based on the U.S. federal government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the end the governments had to relent in the face of commercial pressure. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As he delivered his poison against the Jews, the Japanese government, and the United States, he was oddly frisky, as if he’d just become aware that he was free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the Soviet government was scrambling to launch the enormous rescue effort for their heroic women pilots, an event of global significance was going on without them in western Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Wallace claimed it was his state’s constitutional right, not the federal government’s right, to operate Alabama’s public schools, colleges, and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In June McNamara asked his assistant, John McNaughton, to start collecting classified documents for future use by government officials and scholars. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had unconsciously succumbed to the ethnic divisions fostered by the white government and I did not know how to speak to my own kith and kin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than just kill Lincoln and Grant, he now plans to do nothing less than undertake a top-down destruction of the government of the United States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver declared that the armed struggle would intensify until the government was prepared to negotiate the abolition of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The deaths of Lincoln, Grant, Johnson, and Seward should be more than enough to cause chaos in the government and begin to avenge the South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting between the highest local government official and militant black leaders was itself an important concession, an act of good faith on Grabarek’s part that surprised the black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The articles suited the tenor of the moment established by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s febrile accusations of Communist influence in every corner of government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next day went by without the mobile unit moving its tanks or the government giving in to the workers’ demands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is, instead: Why were such otherwise-sensible statesmen as Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton all convinced that the newly established government of the United States was so precarious and problematic? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On January 20, 1926, Burkhart—whom the government had not yet charged, waiting to see the extent of his cooperation—told White that he was sure he was going to be “bumped off.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Radio Caribe, the government station, is having a recitation contest, but most of the poems are about El Jefe, so Mami turns it off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“My Papá says the government’s doing all this stuff for us because it’s an election year.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They ran the schools and the local government. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bobby Kennedy will end the war, end the discrimination that’s splitting our country in two, and end the control of the government by a handful of fat old men.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sisulu: ‘The government is responsible for what has happened in this country. I plead not guilty.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, it’s over—the greatest student government project in the history of school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The Mexican government denied their immigration papers and reversed their land grant. It was just another dream that went nowhere.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They filed petitions, and the government started looking for ways to shut my dad down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My mother and father made themselves understood at the county hospital clinic and at government offices. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons he did not mind if original holders of government securities sold out to speculators was that he preferred to see the money in fewer hands. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Soon her name began to appear on government buildings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Please understand, it is your own government, not ours. We are simply advising you. It’s the rule.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he had done was buy a cheap farm from the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d learned something about government, heard people in power on the radio, but I had never heard anything about our people being in power. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, in 1917, the Bolsheviks gained control of the Russian government, they installed a Communist form of government. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Vannevar Bush balked at the sum, complaining that it was too much for the government to spend on equipment that would remain the property of the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mind streamed, full of thoughts; I could feel the government people circling like carrion birds. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings went inside the ornate Hall of Elders, where all government business was handled and the council kept their records and held their meetings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Zimbabwe was in a full-fledged economic crisis: There were riots in Harare and Bulawayo—the government called in the army after people started smashing windows at grocery stores. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You would have to prove that to the government and the public, so why not prove it to me now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Ten days after a joint communique by the government and the opposition announced the end of the war, there was news of the first armed uprising of Colonel Aureliano Buendía on the western border. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even though the government kept trying to improve them, nobody loved C-rations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, visitors—company people negotiating deals, government people negotiating bribes, factory people negotiating jobs—dropped by, parking their cars near the entrance to the orchard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soldiers nervously patrolled the streets, cheered by many people who had wished for the government’s defeat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the whole point of the Pentagon Papers is the incredible extent to which the government has defrauded the people of America.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the Nationalist government was making any legal expression of dissent or protest impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find the whole thing bizarre because I can’t imagine anyone raised in District 13 being a threat the government would have to guard against. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The craft work—no, they would not get that But it was a major job, and the government seemed to favor opening up employment to black workers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Soviet Union opportunistically filled the void we left by providing money, supplies, and technical support to the new government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Say, boy, what do you think of public ownership? Do you think the government ought to build houses for people to live in?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was filled with domestic and international journalists, and dozens of representatives of foreign governments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classmates was the term which one government official might use for another official who had passed the government exams in the same year as he. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole has been explaining to me the native system of government. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And no, of course not, but that’s what the government sees her as.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Some within the ANC had unrealistic expectations and were convinced that the campaign could topple the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Install gangsters in government without giving us a chance to vote on it?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the government can cheek not only act but thought. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It helped him to see that every regularly priced carton he bought meant that the white man’s government took around two dollars of a black man’s hard-earned money for taxes, not for tobacco. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settled cross-legged on the floor beside his charpoy and began the story of the man who came to ask my baap to write to the government because the government’s train killed his cow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t vote for such a law, arguing that it was just another example of the government sticking its nose into people’s business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An ANC government would still require much of the present civil service to run the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Gandhi invited each person in the theater to join him in an exceptional oath, a pledge not to register, not to accept the government’s rules, even if that resulted in severe punishment. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

That could come in as soon as eighteen months if Fermi’s program had full government support. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The nation maintains its own elected government and has twenty thousand members. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The clearest statement Washington ever made on America's national interest came in his Circular Letter of 1783, the last of his annual letters to the state governments as commander in chief. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Having that protection paid for by the government is even better, as it suggests your safety is of interest to someone other than yourself. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and opened every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seems likely that the US government knew that the squatters would not abide by the treaty. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All schools and government buildings are on lockdown. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For the Chinese government, an uncontrolled surge of impoverished Korean refugees is undesirable for several reasons. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

East Bank was where the government had gone in, cleared out the squatters and their shacks, and started to build actual homes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The plan was for the citizens of both the North and South to choose a single government that would lead a reunited Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The government symbol, a black Zimbabwe bird on a green-and-red background, was clearly marked on the side. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the union was picking up enough steam to worry the government. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d heard that the Communists were targeting mostly police and government officials. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In his inaugural address, Mr. de Klerk said his government was committed to peace and that it would negotiate with any other group committed to peace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

North Vietnam’s ruler, Ho Chi Minh, was waging war to unite the country under one government—his. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I also wished to send a message to the government that while I rejected its offer because of the conditions attached to it, I nevertheless thought negotiation, not war, was the path to a solution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing left to watch but the official government tele-vision channel, we were all but cut off from the outside world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He talked about how frustrated they felt to have to drive all the way from Lagos because the federal government blockade meant Nigeria Airways was no longer flying to the southeast. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In 1949, West Germany became an independent state, ruled by a democratic form of government modeled after those of the United States, Britain, and France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oppression occurred, he saw, when governments and most people simply ignored the poor or, worse, abused them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I hope it is not true what they are saying, that the government will take over all Biafran bank accounts.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sargo was also working to overthrow the governments of Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, and Brazil, so that pro-Nazi leaders could be installed across South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They argued that we had the government where we wanted them, and that we should continue the campaign indefinitely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can imagine the reaction of the mayor and city council members as some 100 poor black people walked into the chamber of city government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the government ignored him, like an annoying fly. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I walked into the student government meeting just as the president was calling it to order. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government, at long last, had made its move. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s policy was to try to put Africans into ethnic enclaves because they feared the power of Af-rican unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit of the Defiance Campaign continued in the eastern Cape long after it vanished elsewhere, and ANC members there seized on the M-Plan as a way of continuing to defy the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every family in the township was allocated a piece of land by the government. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He said that the government would fly me to Johannesburg and officially release me there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had the English government ever done against me? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese government propaganda frightened those poor people so much that they didn’t allow themselves to be captured. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander Bickel countered that the paper was protected by the First Amendment, and that this was the first time in American history the government had tried to silence a newspaper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With the help of hired hands, Garfield grew crops and raised animals to supplement the income from his government position and law practice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the federal government had spent about $375,000 for control work and additional thousands had been provided by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Other things, like a forest ecosystem, or the structure of a government, are so complex that they have to be explored or studied before their structure can be understood. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The judge asked if the government had any remarks, and St. Lewis stood. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I keep hoping she’ll invite Mrs. Hameed over for coffee, or to get their nails done while they discuss the three branches of government. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A National Action Council was elected, with myself as honorary secretary, to communicate this demand to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the government had appointed someone in his stead, a chief is a chief by virtue of his birth and wields authority because of his blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Fuchs had returned to Britain and continued working for the government. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As for the government, it does not find any important value in it,” Suzuki said of the Potsdam Declaration. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was almost no part of government he liked or trusted. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither North Carolina nor the US government recognized its bid for statehood, but they lacked the resources to force Franklin back into North Carolina’s control. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though promoted to a major by the Lon Nol government, Pa said he did not want to join but had to, or he would risk being persecuted, branded a traitor, and perhaps even killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the late 1920s and 1930s black and white patrons integrated the audiences of numerous lectures, meetings, and concerts in government auditoriums and in private concert halls. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most revealing of all the hysteria propelling the Red Scare were laws passed by local and state governments throughout the nation that restricted parades and what they termed “radical activity.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Each time his campaign stressed his commitment to the poor and the fact that the government in Philadelphia was controlled by a wealthy few who tended to disregard the welfare of its less fortunate citizens. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I was glad to be driving sedately at twenty-five miles an hour through vast, straight-furrowed grainlands, under an even gray sky, towards a capital whose government believed in Order. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the government fallen, hostile soldiers would be scrambling over the countryside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was when the government was encouraging families to eat at neighborhood canteens to reduce housework and allow women to work outside the family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived in a fertile valley, the kind the government in Khartoum craved. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The government was even paying for their passage back. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

If the Mutual resembled a government for African-Americans in the new century, then C. C. Spaulding served as its head of state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the federal government was to continue to operate, then Congress would have to meet in Philadelphia, whether or not the deadly fever was still present. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Some musk which my system generates must be especially appealing to the authorities of the government. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she put up the post, written after a visit to Ranyinudo’s office, about the governments demolishing of hawkers’ shacks, an anonymous commenter wrote, This is like poetry. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After he had been diagnosed with cancer, a newspaper campaign calling for his release on humanitarian grounds had influenced the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import their fancy cars and electronics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There may be bands of turncoats secretly plotting to overthrow their former government, but I certainly haven’t run across them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Are Dalian residents bothered by working for the Japanese, whose government has still never formally apologized for what the wartime Japanese government did to China? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Barack now traveled in sleek black SUVs provided by the government and was trailed by a team of suited, earpieced men and women with guns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I felt it was important publicly to explain my talks with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was evident that the South African government didn’t want me to leave the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And League intelligence about PSFs in that area. It seems that Leda Corporation is now employing the government to protect their shipments.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One was that the government planned to build a canal into the great swamp called the Sudd. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months in the KGB prison, including seventy days in solitary confinement, Powers learned that the Soviet government intended to put him on trial for espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If he cannot do so in good conscience, he should resign. He has no right to sabotage his president and his own government from within.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dad said the government raised a stink but later backed off because the Indians had better lawyers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

His arguments for a fortified national government became the centerpiece around which all the compromises and revisions of the eventual document congealed, giving him the honorary title of “Father of the Constitution.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

While I told the committee that my colleagues had to be released unconditionally, I said the government could expect disciplined behavior from them after their release. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expected to see a grand building like the government offices in Umtata, but the Crown Mine offices were rusted tin shanties on the face of the mine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I turned very calmly to your mother and said, ‘Either that’s a ghost, or the government’s given us some bad information.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He also pressed for the University of California to renew its government contract to manage Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Rather ironically, the last major duty of the Adams collaboration was to supervise the transition of the federal government to its permanent location on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The government was determined to protect Oppenheimer and his staff—and their bomb-making secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high government official had told a joke on an airplane that had gotten him fired. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rambling treatises on the role of government in America with all the Gs written backward, paragraphs translated from English to Spanish, tables of his elementary school classmates’ strengths and weaknesses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Uncle liked to say that the demons had examined him more rigorously than any government exam. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government gave the go-ahead that the tournament take place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture is not unlike Egypt today, where the government in Cairo keeps power by a combination of tactics, including management of local religious authorities that swerves between heavy-handed intimidation and cynical appeasement. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The real public school system, the one run by the government, had been an underfunded, overcrowded train wreck for decades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, that’s also the key to a successful government. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Reich president Paul von Hindenburg has just formed a new government! Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party, has been sworn into office as the new chancellor of the Reich!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The occupants of the bedroom change constantly, with clergymen, government officials, and other people stepping in for a moment to pay their respects. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or, at least, Miyoko would be the only impediment if it weren’t for the U.S. government, which, ironically, may walk away from this chess match with the best score. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage wards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No one was upset that the government had not helped them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The outlines of the conversation were clear: up with freedom and down with big government. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The small businessmen, government workers, and artisans who lived here could not afford the mansions of the Refined, but most of their homes were equipped with indoor plumbing, electric lights, and gas for cooking. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was afraid I would paint him as a sentimentalist or, worse, some spineless ally of the Cuban government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So I wouldn’t put it past the government to insert some kind of mind-control chip into Dad’s brain and force him to run a crumbling theme park in the desert. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Editorials in Federalist newspapers accused him of passing information to the French government through pro-French agents in America and meeting routinely with Benjamin Franklin Bache, editor of the Aurora, the chief vehicle for the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted the government to see that under the right circumstances we would talk and I wanted Oliver to know that my position and his were the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught social anthropology and law and bluntly spoke out against the government’s social policies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote doesn’t believe in government telling him what to do. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was frustrating at times because students did not want to participate in student government. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Emergency had never been intended to be permanent, and the government believed that it had successfully stifled the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the king grew gray and serious with the burdens of government, Claudius, with his brown beard, was still vigorous and lusty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the government will do anything?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, some eighteen hundred people died, and more than half a million others were displaced, a tragedy exacerbated by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In acknowledgment of the University of California’s tolerant hospitality toward a laboratory that was now devoted almost entirely to government work, Lawrence dubbed the new unit the calutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since 2002, the Beijing government had been attempting—with considerable success—to stop North Koreans from rushing into foreign embassies and consulates to seek asylum. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He solicited an emergency meeting in Washington with Warren Weaver, refusing to divulge the subject in advance but offering to arrange government clearance for Weaver if he desired a full discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

School™ is not so bad now, not like back when my grandparents were kids, when the schools were run by the government, which sounds completely like, Nazi, to have the government running the schools? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing a school project on local government. Would we be able to see some records from a council meeting?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Confederate states chose to secede from the United States rather than let the federal government, led by Lincoln, limit slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The balance is delicate and government veterinarians have found that repeated small doses can gradually deplete an animal’s supply of the protective enzyme cholinesterase, so that without warning a minute additional dose will cause poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In Argentina, a new pro-fascist government had come into power, and Sargo and other spies were pushing the country to cooperate more closely with Germany. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, a few of the people inside still knew how to make weapons. They made a bomb—you know, an explosive— and set it off in the government building,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In front of us, the line splits in two as a large group of ex-soldiers, government workers, and former politicians walk over to the table to register for work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm still mad about his reaction in government, but if he apologizes, I might be able to forgive him if he likes Harry Potter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Garfield pledged to use his congressional experience with the country's finances to keep the economy strong and to prevent wasteful government spending. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a right to think that way. Or maybe you’ve forgotten that a few years back the government decided it couldn’t trust any of us and shipped us out of here.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then again, politeness is about making a guest feel welcome, which the government man certainly was not. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s very high up, very important. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had something to do with the law. Or the government. Was he very grand and proud?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

From what root is "democracy" derived?—What adjective is formed from "democracy"?—Is Russia at present a democracy?—Can you mention any ancient governments that for a time were democracies? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though these outbreaks had nothing whatsoever to do with the campaign, the government attempted to link us with them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventeen-year-old Zvonko Springer could not believe it when the government requisitioned the bicycle that his parents had given him as a birthday present. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The British government agreed to send Oppenheimer a team of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does work for the government, Lester. I’ve bragged on him a million times. This is my sister’s boy. He works in the governor’s office...the assistant to the assistant.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I really dig Mr. Crosby; he’s pretty laid-back except when he starts talking about what he calls “government pork,” and then he gets all wild and upset. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By mid-April, the collapse of the South Vietnamese government was imminent. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Voting in North Korea is not mandatory, but the government keeps close track of those who do not show up. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Although Garfield filled many government jobs from lists provided by Republican political bosses, he didn't please everyone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t after the memory serum. They were after poison—death serum. So that they could kill a bunch of important government people and start a war.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The classes were the same: language and communications; commerce and industry; science and technology; civil procedures and government. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His worry was that the U.S. government might finally have caught up with him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He worked for the government, too, with his secret assignments and all, but he has never talked about it all that much since we started living together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government—the Exclusion Authority—built all of this, this whole camp, under the cover of darkness. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The FTP was established in 1935 under the Works Progress Administration, one of the government’s New Deal programs intended to provide economic relief during the Great Depression. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to Ben that she was a lot more interested in the politics of homeroom than the muddled breastworks of state and local government. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re asking me to invade the embassy of a foreign government because you felt a hole in the astral waves. What kind of evidence is that?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the top levels of every government, they know this is a lie. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The information in this video is to be restricted to those in government only,” Amanda says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder you’ve evaded the government for so long—but you can’t hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I headed off to government, Ben to an elective about video game design. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He kept asking me to check with the government about how his flag would be delivered and urging me to get a commitment in writing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Learning from its lessons in Peru, Haiti, and Russia, PIH works closely with governments and their agencies to minimize political misunderstandings and to deploy their complementary resources. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sohrab had been pretty much fatherless for years, but here I was, complaining about Stephen Kellner who, while imperfect, was certainly less terrifying than the Iranian government. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Constitution had provided for Congress to identify a “seat of government” not to exceed one hundred square miles in size to be purchased from the proximate states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suppose a citizen leaks information that exposes government wrongdoing, but breaks the law in doing so. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of the elevators, Sheehan explained that a source had offered to give him a copy of a secret government study about Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The government people might have beaten our family, but there were lots more people out there against us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently Stalin himself greeted them with kisses when they reached the Kremlin, the palatial seat of Soviet government, and Marina and Valentina had a joyful reunion with their children. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Many government officials believed that the anarchists were sympathetic to the Communists who had taken over the Russian government and were determined to make the United States their next target. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Not many in the Russian government liked to pleasant past. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the US government halted all immigration from Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear what Zik said the other day? Eastern Nigeria seethes, seethes, and will continue to seethe until the federal government addresses the massacres,” Professor Ezeka said, his hoarse voice quickly fading. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many of their closest friends and colleagues in Virginia had urged them to regard Hamilton’s program as clinching evidence of a foreign takeover of the national government that fully justified a withdrawal from the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite a clear and pressing need, subsidized housing wasn’t considered, primarily because it ran counter to the economic interests of slumlords who held powerful positions in and out of government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For example, government rules say the walls of a processing plant must be white. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Why, Diaz wonders, do these Central American governments send us all their problems? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“In principle,” he said, “I am not against negotiations. But I would have wished that the government initiated talks with us rather than us initiating talks with them.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It wasn't so long ago the government paid two hundred dollars bounty for every Indian killed by settlers." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That does not mean that government security officials invariably found Lawrence cooperative, especially when their suspicions fell upon Rad Lab members he considered indispensable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The government of Nepal recognized that the throngs flocking to Everest created serious problems in terms of safety, aesthetics, and impact to the environment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bush’s appointment as the nation’s science czar would soon give Ernest Lawrence entree to the highest councils of government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the top, members of the core class could obtain jobs in government, the Korean Workers’ Party, officer ranks of the military, and the intelligence services. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her Appalachian childhood had acquainted her with government assistance, and she was a whiz with the Medicaid forms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

With Angleton gone, the Operations Directorate maneuvered for new opportunities to penetrate deep into the heart of Brezhnev's secretive and rigid government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was reassured whenever the president addressed the nation to let them know the government was working hard to solve all the problems. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Apparently Day has some detailed knowledge of how government uniforms look. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Our clients were multinational corporations, bureaus of foreign governments, individuals of resource and connection. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx snuck a look at the government man sitting in the second row. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall expressed worry that if the Court ruled in favor of the government, it would become easier for the government to silence the media in the future. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the war began, the government had put Nishina in charge of fission bomb research in Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Saudi Arabian government had borrowed him from the United Nations to direct all of the reconstruction work being done on Arabian holy places. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are you testifying because you're getting a deal from the government ? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, we’d fall into the trap the government had set for us and fight among ourselves, believing that we were different. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The government considered his claim but refused to pay him a cent. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We spent our summers at Nantucket, Massachusetts, where Dad bought two lighthouses, which had been abandoned by the government, and a ramshackle cottage, which looked as if it had been abandoned by Coxey’s Army. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this was the first test of the viability of the new federal government under the Constitution, the government was failing miserably. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In effect, the government of Pennsylvania had closed its doors as tightly as any of Philadelphia’s shopkeepers had. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The pouches were available by the carton from a little man who didn’t bother adding government tax to his prices. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The editorial was mentioned on the government radio station in Haiti, and the junta promptly declared that Farmer had slandered the Haitian government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The commander was responsible for several of his government hotel visits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

After several tense days, the Polish government agrees to a compromise. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were messages from government leaders, diplomats, and movie stars. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ford’s Theatre, restored in the 1960s after serving as a government office building, lives again as a museum and working playhouse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ken said it wasn’t either, that it was just the government looking out for the little man. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had an obvious application in warfare, both on land and sea, and so he persuaded the Venetian government to reward him for his invention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The government had already informed the foreign press that I was to be set free tomorrow and felt they could not renege on that statement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty-two years earlier, Lemon explained, another government insider had set off a firestorm by leaking secret documents to the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When we informed the government that we were suspending talks, we sent Mr. de Klerk a memo outlining the reasons for our withdrawal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. government also entered the fray in the hopes of gaining twenty years of back taxes owed by Bobby, and what was left over from the 1992 match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was an undergraduate at Delhi University during the euphoria of 1957, when the Communists won the State Assembly elections and Nehru invited them to form a government. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the way he figured it would be for his son, Michael, until the federal government stuck its fat nose in and started telling everybody what to do whether they liked it or not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Haitians, who trace their ancestry to West Africa, have been exploited for 250 years, no matter what government was in power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The chief drawback to the lab’s expanding relationship with the government was the growing burden of security. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I stood by the window, watching the lingering cloud of dust dredged up by the car tires as the government people drove off. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were two of them. At first I was rather anxious—I thought they were from the State Department, or worse. You've heard of my problems with the Isrami government?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the international front, Oliver held talks with the governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and in January 1987 met with the U.S. secretary of state, George Shultz, in Washington. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Driving the car at high speed was John Paul Vann, a retired army colonel, now working as a civilian advisor for the government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, that many Southern states erected Confederate flags atop their state government buildings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Tulsa Tribune said that though the government’s case was strong, bets around Guthrie were “five to one for a hung jury.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ninety percent qualify for “free or reduced lunch,” which is to say that their families earn so little that the federal government chips in so the children can eat properly at lunchtime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went because the government ordered us to. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the Khmer Rouge has won the war and its government is called “the Angkar.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This “feverish condition” was ignited in 1917 when a well-organized and militant political party known as the Bolsheviks staged a successful revolution in Russia and took over the government. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If people know something belongs to a person instead of the city or the U.S. government they're more likely to leave it be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tenzing Norgay and other eminent Sherpas signed a petition demanding that the government of Nepal conduct an official inquiry of the purported ascent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But these black Washingtonians were angered and deeply disturbed by the discriminatory laws the city’s government was intent on passing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The new government guarantees on its word of honor your personal safety and that of your family.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The new government decided to close the refugee camps. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the only way to get out of Freetown without being killed by the armed men and boys of the new government, who hated it when people left the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Advisors warned Johnson that the government of South Vietnam would not survive long without increased U.S. military support. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the government kidnapped those kids in Arizona who had the same names and birthdays as Chess, Emma, and Finn? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Did the regular city government know what the Specials had done to the Smoke, or to Az? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace, and responsibility.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were, content to live off “government handouts” instead of seeking “self-sufficiency,” like everyone else, through a job. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government had always utilized divide-and-rule tactics when dealing with Africans and depended on the strength of ethnic divisions among the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How long have you worked for the government?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not technically a job, nor is it an official government title. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But through negotiations over the past months, the ANC and government teams had put together a tentative agreement involving a two-stage transitional period to a fully democratic South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, he would travel by yacht to The Corporation’s private island, away from prying government eyes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She picked up a lovely gold-patterned robe and said softly, “This was a government official’s uniform. I remember my grandfather wearing it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government poured money into Turner Station, which began filling with one- and two-story housing projects, many of them pressed side by side and back-to-back, some with four to five hundred units. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He says the government made it all up. But he might be joking. Sometimes I can’t tell with my dad.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Over in Indiana, the young Klan leader D. C. “Steve” Stephenson was the government, ruling the Hoosier State from his plush offices in Indianapolis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I then added somewhat ambiguously, “Perhaps something good will come of this. I’m now in a position where the government can make an approach to us.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how it worked: In times when prices were low, the government gave farmers loans so they could store, rather than have to sell, their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s Nazi government was growing increasingly bold, and boasted that its air force was now second to none in the entire world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I told the crowd that we one day would occupy these buildings as the first democratically elected government of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Our class even had a discussion: The government may not be behaving as it should, but could we run our classroom a bit more like a democracy? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nor could dispensers of government patronage merely weigh scientific projects against one another: the cost of high-energy physics had become so great that broader priorities were implicated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The West has always helped to keep the Christian government in power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one about those Black Panthers who were shot by the government.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But successful negotiations required a French government sufficiently stable and adequately impressed with American power to bargain seriously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nepal’s Supreme Court orders the government to issue citizenship ID cards that allow people to describe themselves as “third-gender” or “other.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What had the U.S. government done for them? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The government of Kenya had issued a law that every nomadic family must send one child to school, whether they liked it or not. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was more convinced than ever that the government was behind much of the violence and the violence was impeding the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

States and governments could not buy and protect these holy trees. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Day of Protest boosted our morale, made us realize our strength, and sent a warning to the Malan government that we would not remain passive in the face of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he went back and forth to Islamabad and Peshawar, pleading with the government for help and speaking out against the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the end, the government approved the report, but rejected a number of its recommendations as being too progressive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had discovered my identity and told me that the Coloured community feared that under an African government they would be just as oppressed as under the present white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. government, Snowden explained, was secretly monitoring the phone and Internet activities of millions of Americans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z