1 government

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 politics

2 political

1 policy

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 surname Bao

1 violence

2 force

3 violent

1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp

2 sporadic effort

3 short attention span

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence

1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)

1 lit. to govern from behind the curtain

2 to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)