The Iraqi government exists here in little more than name.

"The next three to fourth months are the most crucial and that is the reason this government exists."

But, as you will have noticed, my government barely exists.

The government, as either a moral force or an organizing factor of public life, simply did not exist.

No big government existed that required them to pay for their natural right to go fishing.

The scale to which government should exist and operate in the world is a matter of debate.

Such a government will only exist when all the people of this island elect it.

From that point forward, the government existed primarily on paper and was dissolved at the end of the war.

Late in the war, the provisional government existed mostly on paper.

This leaves us with the question: why does the government exist?