But the government, it must be admitted, bowled us over by the force of the phrase; and made it our next duty to bowl them over by bringing the reality of the bill into correspondence with its great profession.
Morley acknowledges the government's rhetorical power and the need for his party to align reality with their promises.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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