The government was almost helpless.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
He saved for my mother some of her money so the government did not get it.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
So after a while he spoke out, as if to himself but so that all could hear him: "If I were the government, I would allow Fatma to go."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz