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  • 21PARKES, Sir Henry (1815-1896) — statesman was born at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England, on 27 May 1815. His father, Thomas Parkes, was a small tenant farmer. Of his mother little is known, but when she died in 1842 Parkes could say of her that he felt as if a portion of this… …

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  • 22cloud — I (incumbrance) noun burden, charge, claim, claim on property, commitment, debt, hold on property, hypothecation, indebtedness, indebtment, liability, mortgage, obligation, obstruction, outstanding debt, pignus judiciale, pignus legale, pledge,… …

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  • 23Responsible government — is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability which is the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments in Westminster democracies are responsible to… …

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  • 24diffidence — c.1400, from L. diffidentia mistrust, distrust, want of confidence, from diffidere to mistrust, lack confidence, from dis away (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + fidere to trust (see FAITH (Cf. faith)). Modern sense is of distrusting oneself (1650s). The… …

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  • 25The bomber will always get through — was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in a speech to the British Parliament in 1932:cquote|I find myself at the close of a most interesting debate which has been well worth while I myself should not have regretted a second day in which there have… …

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  • 26Gough Whitlam — Infobox Prime Minister honorific prefix = The Honourable name= Gough Whitlam honorific suffix = AC QC order=21st Prime Minister of Australia Elections: 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977 term start =5 December 1972 term end =11 November 1975 deputy… …

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  • 27Jacques Laffitte — Infobox Prime Minister name=Jacques Laffitte order=10th Prime Minister of France term start =2 November 1830 term end =13 March 1831 predecessor =Duc de Broglie successor =Casimir Pierre Perier birth date =birth date|1767|10|24|mf=y death date… …

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  • 28LYNE, Sir William John (1844-1913) — premier of New South Wales and federal minister eldest son of John Lyne, for some time a member of the Tasmanian house of assembly, and his wife, Lilias Cross Carmichael, daughter of James Hume of Edinburgh, was born at Apslawn, Tasmania, on 6… …

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  • 29qualm — I noun anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, compunction, concern, diffidence, disquiet, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, equivocalness, feeling of uncertainty, foreboding, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude,… …

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  • 30distrust — I. v. a. Doubt, suspect, lack confidence in, mistrust, disbelieve in. II. n. Suspicion, misgiving, doubt, mistrust, want of confidence …

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