GAO

[ US /ˈɡaʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
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How To Use GAO In A Sentence

  • He could wind up in gaol.
  • Helan shidai Taiwan gaolingji, hunyin yu xili denglubu 荷蘭時代臺灣告令集, 婚姻與洗禮登錄簿. How Taiwan Became Chinese
  • On Friday, June 4th, 2010, Ambassador Zhang Jungao, accompanied by the staff members of the Chinese Embassy and Chinese Medical Team, paid a visit to the Guyana Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL).
  • Another party I fell in with said you could generally always get bread; and the thing to do was to break a plateglass window and get into gaol; seemed rather a brilliant scheme. The Wrong Box
  • At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis. Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?
  • Several distinctive ungulate herbivores are endemic to this hotspot, including the takin (Budorcas taxicolor, VU), an unusual 300-kilogram goat antelope, the red or Bailey's goral (Nemorhaedus baileyi, VU), which is endemic to the Gaoligong Shan, and the Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii). Biological diversity in the mountains of Southwest China
  • While my father remained in the garden, I sent my dutiful compliments to my mother, with inquiry after her health, by Shorey, whom I met accidentally upon the stairs; for none of the servants, except my gaoleress, dare to throw themselves in my way. Clarissa Harlowe
  • In 1843 the gaol had a governor, two turnkeys and two guards but no matron for female prisoners until 1850 when the second stage of the gaol was completed.
  • The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
  • Gaolers were amateurs and for a few bawbees you could escape.
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