They too learned to value the abbot's abilities and consulted him in all important government matters.

I want a President who focuses on government matters.

It would also ensure freedom of information about government matters.

Dan had succeeded in convincing them that it was all a classified government matter.

In that same year he was at court, lobbying on government matters in Ireland.

The police inspector was getting an inside angle on big-time government matters.

For the next five years Playford was to remain a backbencher, and to involve himself relatively little in government matters.

What did any form of government matter?

He said the money never influenced his decisions on land use or other government matters.

Rain said he was a very ordinary middle-aged journalist, a staid sort of man who wrote about local government matters.