W. T. Cosgrave's Crown-appointed Provisional Government of Southern Ireland effectively subsumed Griffith's republican administration with the death of both Collins and Griffith in August 1922.

Cosgrave's governments in particular played a crucial role in the evolution of the British Empire into the British Commonwealth, with fundamental changes to the concept of the role of the Crown, the governor-generalship and the British Government within the Commonwealth.

This was taken to be an attack on Bruce Arnold, the English born political writer in the Irish Independent newspaper who had been vociferously opposed to Cosgrave's policies particularly regarding the President and the wealth tax.

Cosgrave's son, Liam, succeeded his father as a TD in 1944 and went on to become leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977 and Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977.

The 1973 general election brought a Fine Gael-Labour National Coalition government to power, and Cooney was appointed to Liam Cosgrave's Cabinet as Minister for Justice.

Keating served in Liam Cosgrave's cabinet as Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1973 to 1977.

When Éamon de Valera became President of the Executive Council ( prime minister ) in 1932 he described Cosgrave's ministers ' achievements simply.

Cosgrave's position was that a guerrilla war could drag on indefinitely, making the achievement of law and order and establishing the Free State impossible, if harsh action was not taken.

Cosgrave's family home was burned down by Anti-Treaty fighters and an uncle of his was shot dead.

In the first few years in power Cosgrave's new government faced a number of problems.

Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal became solely identified with protecting the treaty and defending the new State while it seemed pre-occupied with public safety.

Cosgrave's erstwhile opponent, Declan Costello, had retired in 1969.

Cosgrave's fortunes changed in 1970.

Cosgrave's determination to support government anti-terrorist legislation in votes in the Dáil, in the face of outright opposition from his party, almost cost him his leadership.

Cosgrave's government, already infuriated, blamed Ó Dálaigh's delaying enactment of the bill for Clerkin's murder.

In addition many Republican voters were angered by what they saw as Cosgrave's harsh line on the PIRA and the handling of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings which resulted in the perpetrators walking scot-free.

Childers considered resigning from the presidency, but was convinced to remain by Cosgrave's Foreign Minister, Garret FitzGerald.

It was a case of history repeating itself as FitzGerald's father had held that post in a government led by Liam Cosgrave's father W. T. Cosgrave fifty years earlier.

Given that Cosgrave had never kept minutes before, it is understandable that Cosgrave's minutes, at least early on in the government, proved less than a thorough record of government decisions.

O ' Higgins, de-facto head of government, reversed Cosgrave's appeasement and confronted the IRAO mutineers and confounded their objectives.

Blythe was a strong supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1923 he became Minister for Finance in W. T. Cosgrave's first government.

I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.

On March 27, 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, $ 235. 65 million compact with the Government of Armenia.

The Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Botswana signed the Agreement on Cultural, Scientific and Educational Cooperation in September 1999.

Although the Government of Chad and the Government of Sudan signed the Tripoli Agreement on February 8, 2006, officially ending hostilities, fighting continues.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The agreement represented one of the largest transfers of land that was signed between the U. S. Government and Native Americans without being instigated by warfare.

In 2007, the Government of Lesotho signed a compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation to provide $ 362. 5 million in support to develop Lesotho's water sector, healthcare infrastructure, and private sector.

On August 18, 2003, the Liberian Government, the rebels, political parties, and leaders from civil society signed a peace agreement that laid the framework for a two-year National Transitional Government of Liberia.

Because of a supposed ‘ fundamentally broken system of governance that contributed to 23 years of conflict in Liberia ’, and failures of the Transitional Government in curbing corruption, the Liberian government and the International Contact Group on Liberia signed onto the anti-corruption program GEMAP, starting September 2005.

Although a similar bilateral friendship agreement was signed with Belarus in 1995, Lithuania has joined the United States and other European nations in urging the Government of Belarus to adopt democratic and economic reforms.

Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement that the coalition under Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British Government of Margaret Thatcher.

After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

A peace agreement between the Government and ex-combatants was signed in August 2001.

In May 2010, Turkey and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia also signed a military training agreement, in keeping with the provisions outlined in the Djibouti Peace Process.

Switzerland played a key role in brokering a truce agreement between the Sudanese Government and Sudan People's Liberation Army for the Nuba Mountains region, signed after a week's negotiations taking place near Lucerne in January 2002.

A recent example, is when a court ruled that it was illegal for local authority councils to hold prayers before undertaking the council business ( though part of the session ) and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government signed a Parliamentary Order approved by Parliament, to overrule the court and legally allow all local authorities to hold prayers at sessions.

The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and the Government of Norway signed an agreement in August, 2008 whereby Norway agreed to provide funds for the Tanga-Pemba Sub Sea Cable Project, which will enable Pemba Island to receive electricity from the National Grid from the Tanga Region ; the laying of a 40 megawatts marine cable started in December 2009.

The Agreement was signed at the Civil Service College ( now the National School of Government ) in Sunningdale Park located in Sunningdale, Berkshire, on 9 December 1973.

The present-day civil parish of Sunningdale came into existence in 1894 under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894 ; the village had previously been part of Old Windsor.

The Sunningdale Agreement was signed at Sunningdale Park, at the Civil Service Staff College ( now the National School of Government ) on 9 December 1973, a precursor of the Northern Ireland peace process.

The British Government sought to establish a Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 ( under the Sunningdale Agreement ; this was brought down by Unionist action ), in 1982 ( this time boycotted by Nationalists ), and more recently under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.