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  • 1Chief Government Whip (Canada) — In Canada the Chief Government Whip is the member of the Canadian House of Commons charged with ensuring party discipline among members of the caucus of the party forming the government. The whip is also responsible for assigning offices and… …

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  • 2Chief Government Whip (Ontario) — The Chief Government Whip of Ontario is the member of the government responsible for ensuring that members of the governing party attend and vote in the provincial Legislature as the party leadership desires. The current Chief Government Whip is… …

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  • 3Government of Canada — The Canadian Government, formally Her Majesty s Government in Canada, [ [http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc ccsp/fr rf/couronne crown canada/06 600crown of maples e.pdf MacLeod, Kevin S.; A Crown of Maples ; Queen s Printer for Canada;… …

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  • 4Government of the 1st Scottish Parliament — Government of the 1st (1999) Government of the 2nd (2003) Government of the 3rd (2007) Government of the 4th (2011) The Executive of the 1st Scottish Parliament was formed following the 1999 election …

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  • 5whip — whip1 [ wıp, hwıp ] noun * 1. ) count a long thin piece of leather with a handle on one end used for making horses move faster or for hitting someone: Most of the riders carried whips. crack a whip (=move the whip quickly to make a sudden loud… …

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  • 6Whip (politics) — A whip is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. Whips are a party s enforcers , who typically offer inducements and threaten punishments for party members to ensure that they vote… …

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  • 7whip — [c]/wɪp / (say wip) verb (whipped or, Rare, whipt, whipping) –verb (t) 1. to strike with quick, repeated strokes of something slender and flexible; lash. 2. to beat with a whip or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog;… …

  • 8whip into — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms whip into : present tense I/you/we/they whip into he/she/it whips into present participle whipping into past tense whipped into past participle whipped into 1) whip someone into something to make someone… …

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  • 9Government of Ireland — The Government of Ireland ( ga. Rialtas na hÉireann IPA| [ˈɾˠiəɫ̪t̪ˠəsˠ n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ] ) is the cabinet that exercises executive authority in Ireland. The Government is headed by a prime minister called the Taoiseach, and a deputy prime… …

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  • 10whip into shape — phrasal : to bring forcefully to a desired state or condition could have been whipped into shape at a fraction of the cost of government study C.B.Rawson * * * whip into shape 1. To get (a person or group) into a condition ready for action, etc… …

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