Government and Authority

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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