ADMINISTRATION in a Sentence

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130 example sentences for ADMINISTRATION, such as:

1. The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
2. The college loses a lot of money through poor administration.
3. The company built a new HQ to centralize their administration.
4. Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration.
5. The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADMINISTRATION
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administration
 n.  management; supervision; people who are in charge for management; activity of government for powers and duties
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  I cannot let you go, for, in addition to my honour having become involved, it behoves me to show my people how the regular, the organised, administration of an estate may be conducted.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
2  As regards the internal administration and what Andrey Ivanovich in his letter calls "little peccadilloes," I have nothing to say.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
3  A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER IX
4  His means increased rapidly; serfs from neighboring estates came to beg him to buy them, and long after his death the memory of his administration was devoutly preserved among the serfs.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
5  He was subjected to certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the cross-road from Gagny to Lagny.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
6  This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, embarrassed the symmetry of the administration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
7  Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed it, wrote on the back: Note for the administration, left it on the table, and quitted the post.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
8  I will not deny, that if we look back as far as history will direct us, towards the original of commonwealths, we shall generally find them under the government and administration of one man.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The debates wandered over the whole policy of the administration and the general question of slavery, without touching very closely the specific merits of the measure in hand.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Then the national election took place; and the administration, with a vote of renewed confidence from the country, addressed itself to the matter more seriously.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
14  Was Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
15  The administration of mutton instead of medicine, the substitution of Tea for Joe, and the baker for bacon, were among the mildest of my own mistakes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
16  The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
17  Education has been given a high-priority rating by the new administration.
18  Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration.
19  The negotiators hoped to effect a smooth transition to an interim administration.
20  The college loses a lot of money through poor administration.
21  The company built a new HQ to centralize their administration.
22  Teachers complain that more of their time is taken up with administration than with teaching.
23  The Prime Minister appointed some new ministers to ginger up her administration.
24  We think it is expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new administration.
25  I'm afraid our needs do not rate very high with this administration.
26  The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
27  The present administration has demonstrated little regard for environmental issues.
28  The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to under developed nations.
29  The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
30  With such a majority, the administration was emboldened to introduce radical new policies.