Government and Authority

1. The government has lost a great deal of ________ because of the large increase in food prices.

2. The Jury gave a unanimous ________ of Not Guilty.

3. It was ________ by the railways board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten per cent.

4. Motorists _____ of speeding may be banned from driving for a year.

5. He visited an ________ castle in an old part of the city.

6. After years of war, the whole nation wanted to make ________ with their enemies.

7. The Government will have ________ this proposal very carefully.

8. Violence in the local prison has ________ two lives.

9. Be quiet! It’s rude to ________ people when they are speaking.

10. The 1950s were the ________ of this cult but one still hears references to it today.

11. It takes six weeks to ________ a man to do this job.

12. The Post Office is only a few yards ________.

13. What measures have been ________ to control the crowd at Saturday’s football match?

14. She began to feel nervous when the train pulled up at the ________ between Austria and Yugoslavia.

15. The completion of the new Town Hall has been ________ owing to a strike.

16. It is not profitable to provide bus services in districts where the population is widely ________.

17. The victory was ________ annually by a ten-gun salute.

18. A ________ change in policy is needed if relations are ever to improve.