Bush administration
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- noun
- /bʊʃ ædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən/
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administración Bush
- We need to learn from the mistakes of the Bush administration and adopt twenty-first-century strategies to solve twenty-first-century problems.
- Bush administration policies
- Bush administration officials
- Bush administration decisions
And I think the other thing is something that a a Harvard Law professor here who was in the Bush administration warned people about Jack Goldsmith.
- And I think the other thing is something that a a Harvard Law professor here who was in the Bush administration warned people about Jack Goldsmith.
- And they tried to marginalized gay people during the George W Bush administration.
- Like, you have people who worked in the Bush administration that literally have untold amounts of blood on their hands criticizing Donald Trump.
- I mean, the Bush administration failed.
- So initial response to the Bush administration was, well, let's negotiate.
- The Bush, the Bush administration moves in the Middle East look like very threatening to the Iranian you were on the western border in Afghanistan.
- But we lost our brand with our fiscal profligacy under the delay Congress and the and the Bush administration.
Examples
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Historians will be discussing for years to come why the Bush administration missed this opportunity.
Academic text (2011) -
Then in 2001, just five and a half months before 9/11... ... the Bush administration welcomed a Taliban envoy... ... to tour the United States... ... to help improve the image of the Taliban government.
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And a lot of what we saw during the Bush administration was the United States leading with its military.
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Many in the Bush administration felt that the plan had a lot to recommend it.
Academic text (2013) -
Shortly after joining the suit, the Bush administration made another announcement.
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September 11 did alter the focus and foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration.
Academic text (2011) -
On the economic front, the Bush administration made some dramatic gestures but did not always follow through.
Academic text (1991) -
The attacks naturally brought about a shift in the Bush administration's foreign policy, but it was not a doctrinal revolution.
Academic text (2008) -
You will recall that when the Bush administration took office in January of 2001, a National Energy Policy Development Group, the NEPDG, was formed and placed under the exclusive, private, absolute control of Vice President Dick Cheney.
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During the Bush administration, the U.S. implemented significant policy changes that affected the economy.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bush + administration
The phrase is compositional: 'Bush' functions as the president's name and 'administration' means a leader's term or government, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the government during Bush's presidency. This leader+administration pattern is cross-linguistically common, so despite possible ambiguity about which Bush, the overall meaning is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Bush administration puts the president's last name Bush together with administration, the team that runs the government. So Bush administration means 'the government and its leaders while George W. Bush was president, from 2001 to 2009'.