1 With regard to administrative matters, Moscow was granted a constitution.
2 Military, administrative, political, and masonic interests continually absorbed his attention.
3 The condition of the native tribes was investigated in its political, administrative, economic, ethnographic, material, and religious aspects.
4 The words which characterize it in administrative language are sonorous and dignified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS 5 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.
6 As regards the internal administration and what Andrey Ivanovich in his letter calls "little peccadilloes," I have nothing to say.
7 A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government.
8 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.
9 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 HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH... 10 This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, embarrassed the symmetry of the administration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.