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Generally speaking I'd think of the government as a singular entity despite the clear differences between many of its members.
Well, then, why doesn't the same logic apply to 'family' and 'team'? We've discussed team have vs. team has before, and I still see British writers putting family have. You have a family, or a team: its members do xyz; it does xyz.
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