Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor and whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The regime again refers above all to a form of government.

但政体仍凌驾各种定义,意指一种政府形式。

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But what is a regime? Broadly speaking a regime indicates a form of government whether it is ruled by the one a few the many or as more common some mixture a combination of these three ruling powers.

但到底何谓政体？广义来说,政体象征着一种形式的政府,无论它独裁，寡头或多头掌政,或是更常见的混合体,综合上述三种统治权力。

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It urged them to form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: special.2010.08.07

That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

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He helped the people of Japan write a new constitution for a democratic form of government.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

(Speaking in Russian) Stelmakh says the commission is, in essence,nothing more than a form of censorship aimed at legitimizing the current government.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

He left his post after more than 10 weeks of fruitless attempts to form a coalition government.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"Even when we know the result of the election, we may not know what the result is in terms of government -- who will successfully make a deal with who to form what sort of government."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"Because these groups see the federal government as the primary enemy, and the government today has a face that is black in the form of President Obama, that has really radicalized portions of the movement.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Political analyst and editor of Nepal's Samay magazine,Yuvraj Ghimre, says their efforts to form a government for the second time are not succeeding because they have been unable to work in cooperation with other parties.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"I think that,because it looks like the top four parties are going to be relatively close to one another, it is going to require a significant amount of political maneuvering, brokering deals, a lot of horse-trading behind closed doors to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

Mr.Ahmadinejad's assault against opposition leaders comes at a time when he is being criticized by his own supporters for using poor judgment in trying to form a new government, and while Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has softened criticism of the opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

The Liberal Democrats can't form a majority government on their own either and the Conservative chances of doing that, which were slim when the campaign started, have receded - they're the main victim of the surge in support for the Liberal Democrats that occurred last week."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

With the impasse unlikely to be resolved before the end of this month, when U.S.troops will drop to their lowest levels in Iraq since the war began in 2003, the U.N.Security Council pressed the legislators to work through their differences in "the national interest" and form "as quickly as possible, a government that is inclusive and represents the will of the Iraqi people."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04