"Military government" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... evinces the great policy of the military government of the Tartars, in employing the subjugated nations in one corner of their empire to make conquests at such enormous distances from their native countries. The Alanians came from the country between the Euxine and Caspian, in Long. 60 deg. E. and were ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... retinue, they have the impudence to exact what they call teeth-money, a contribution for the use of their teeth, worn with doing them the honour of devouring their meat. This is literally and exactly true, however extravagant it may seem; and such is the natural corruption of a military government, their religion not allowing of this barbarity, ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague
... your observations on the too strong tendency of opinion towards military government, the Directory recognises an equally enlightened and ardent friend ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... support of the troops yielded a large revenue to the shoguns; courts were established at Kamakura; the priests, who had made much trouble, were disarmed; a powerful permanent army was established; a military chief was placed in each province beside the civil governor, and that military government was founded which for nearly seven centuries robbed the mikado of all but the semblance of power. Thus it came that the shogun, or the tycoon as he afterwards named himself, appeared to be ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... high level of foreign trade. During the early 1990s, Chile's reputation as a role model for economic reform was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio AYLWIN - which took over from the military in 1990 - deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government. Growth in real GDP averaged 8% during 1991-97, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies implemented to keep the current account deficit in check and because of lower export earnings - the latter a product of the global ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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