Sentences with phrase «after the government backed»

After the government backed down, hundreds of scientists across the country organized into working groups to prepare a string of reports, which were then honed into last week's proposals.
Interestingly, France imposed an interim moratorium on shale gas extraction earlier this year, and may ban it entirely, after the government backed a draft bill that would outlaw the controversial process.

Not exact matches

Two giant waste - to - energy projects planned for Kwinana and Rockingham could gain extra financial backing after the federal government unveiled a raft of policy initiatives to address problems flowing from China's new restrictions on accepting foreign waste.
A new mining research centre to be jointly based in Western Australia and South Australia and backed by 34 industry and academic partners is set to proceed after the federal government committed to provide $ 50 million in funding.
Woodside Petroleum is hoping to win state government backing for a new 700 - bed fly - in, fly - out camp at Karratha, after selecting a consortium led by Multiplex and Compass Group to build, own and operate the facility.
An ambitious water supply project in Western Australia's South West is set to proceed after gaining federal government backing, with Collie Water chairman Peter Fogarty saying he was well advanced in securing private investors to complete funding.
A new mining research centre to be co-based in Western Australia and South Australia and backed by 34 industry and academic partners is set to proceed after the federal government committed to provide $ 50 million in funding.
Similarly, after a period of stimulus spending that increased spending and debt, the government is moving its spending back to traditional levels.
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of mostly Gulf Arab states intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to try and push back the Houthis after the movement drove the internationally recognized government into Saudi exile.
But as Janigan details, regional battles over resources in the West go back to at least the 1860s when, shortly after Confederation, the new Canadian government agreed to pay # 300,000 to the Hudson's Bay Co. for the lands between Ontario and the colony of British Columbia.
Al Shabaab coalesced after the 2006 U.S. - backed Ethiopian invasion that overthrew the conservative - Islamist Islamic Courts Union, which had set itself up as a de-facto government amidst Somalia's ongoing stateless vacuum.
The Conservative minority government agreed Tuesday to back the opposition - proposed amendment to its Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill after enough Conservative lawmakers supported the measure.
In April, merger talks between Orange and fellow French telecom Bouygues fell apart after billionaire Martin Bouygues balked at the terms laid out by the French government - backed Orange, while Bouygues was also concerned over the potential difficulty of attaining antitrust approval.
India's stock markets rose on Tuesday, bouncing back from their lowest levels in a year as markets were seen as oversold, while sentiment was also helped after the government said it would make another attempt to pass the goods and services tax (GST).
Sentier Research, a private firm working with publicly available government data, estimates median incomes began to rise in mid-2014 and are now essentially back to where they when the recession began nearly nine years ago, after adjusting for inflation.
Days after the deal was signed in 2006 the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the U.S. tariffs and duties illegal, ordering the U.S. government to give back all of Canada's money.
Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister - designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was back as a «compassionate and constructive voice in the world» after a decade of Conservative governments.
Seven months to the day after that, the Harper government decided it couldn't fulfill April's promise and went back to March's projection.
Why do you think they're going after BCE, the largest telephone company in Canada, or Sallie Mae, the source of countless student loans that have at least the implicit backing of the U.S. government?
After previously outlawing ICOs in September 2017 in a government crackdown, China began exploring its own cryptocurrency initiatives, including a state - backed cryptocurrency currently being examined by the PBoC's Digital Currency Research Institute.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue under government conservatorship, eight years after the fact, and are still paying all their profit back to the U.S. Treasury, ironically putting them in danger of needing another bailout.
Seven months to the day after that, the Harper government has decided it can't fulfill April's promise and is going back to March's projection (at the earliest).
Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.
That's according to MKM Partners» chief economist Mike Darda, who was referring to the Federal Reserve's efforts to unwind its $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet after it bought vast quantities of government bonds and mortgage - backed securities to mitigate the effects of the Great Recession.
Speculation around the government's intentions has escalated since Aug. 14, after China's securities regulator signaled authorities will pare back the campaign to prop up share prices as volatility falls.
After inheriting a surplus the government immediately cut the GST by two points, and in doing so created a structural deficit and an unsustainable fiscal situation, which then required significant spending cuts in the 2010, 2011 and 20012 budgets in order to put the federal finances back on a sustainable path.
After two failed starts by separate investment funds, a new Chinese blockchain innovation fund has solidified the nation's long - term commitment to blockchain technology and has over a billion USD in government backing.
To the extent that I understand it, this criticism seems odd to me: after all, money flows around (and around and around) the economy, and is taxed at various points along the way (and is then injected back into the economy, of course, in the form of government spending).
The city government of Shenzhen, China, is backing a dedicated blockchain investment fund, soon after Hangzhou city supported a similar effort.
The news comes just weeks after the country's Hangzhou government backed the launch of the Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, which has $ 1.6 billion to invest in innovative startups - 30 percent of which will come from the city.
After trading in line with US yields for much of 2004, movements in European and Japanese government bond yields have decoupled from those in the US in recent months, largely reflecting the scaling back in the outlook for economic growth in both economies.
Back to the federal Conservative leadership, Fildebrandt has endorsed leadership candidate Maxime Bernier, the Quebec MP known for his libertarian views briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs before resigning in 2008 after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open, apparently at his former girlfriend's home.
It's embarrassing that after a crisis that nobody saw, government policy continues pouring on more gas to fuel more speculation to get things (stocks, real estate, debt) back to the same place we were, or maybe even worse now...
After the government nixed AT&T's attempt to buy the company in 2011, T - Mobile led the way in many consumer - friendly changes, such as ditching two - year contracts and bringing back unlimited data plans.
After the government nixed AT&T's attempt to buy it in 2011, T - Mobile led the way in many consumer - friendly changes, such as ditching two - year contracts and bringing back unlimited data plans.
Alberta PC MLAs voted to invite Independent MLA Mike Allen back into the government caucus after a year in the opposition benches.
After two years of contraction, Russian GDP returned to growth of 1.5 percent last year on the back of higher oil prices, still short of a government target of 2 percent.
And the reason I argue in the book that earlier depression was over so quickly was because the federal government really did sit back and do nothing, they actually slashed spending because this was right after World War I.
«Permanent Work funding from FEMA is the main source of federal assistance to help a community repair and rebuild its public infrastructure after a natural disaster, and there should be absolutely no ambiguity that the federal government intends to provide this crucial assistance to help Puerto Rico build back after Hurricane Maria,» they wrote.
Apple is being pursued for $ 14.5 billion in back taxes after European regulators ruled that its old tax structure amounted to illegal state aid from the Irish government.
Even the government almost agrees after compromising by raising the income level for when the highest marginal tax bracket kicks in to ~ $ 400,000 from $ 200,000 back in 2013.
By 1908 railway, municipal, county and state bonds supplemented U.S. bonds as legal reserve backing for U.S. Government deposits in the national banks, much as the Federal Reserve would accept real estate mortgages as bank reserves after 2008.
The company is being pursued for $ 14.5 billion in back taxes after European regulators ruled that its old tax structure amounted to illegal state aid from the Irish government.
When those provinces» voters appraised their first - time NDP governments after one term, they pushed them back into third place.
There will be a big «snap - back» effect on India's gold demand after the brief intervention by the Government in late 2016.
Turkey and Iran governments are reportedly contemplating whether to launch government - backed cryptocurrency, just a couple of days after Venezuela began presale for its Oil - backed «Petro «token.
After four years of calm, the age old policy dilemmas that India faces in times of high oil prices are back to haunt the nation and its government.
Victoria Prentis, Conservative MP for Oxford North, was speaking as the war reaches a climax, with reports up to 100,000 people remain trapped in the city of Aleppo after the Syrian government, backed by Russia, virtually recaptured it on Tuesday.
After the June 1953 uprising in East Germany, the secretary of the communist party's writers union distributed leaflets declaring that the people had lost the confidence of the government and it would take redoubled efforts to win it back ¯ to which Brecht responded, «Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?»
Shortly after the curtain is pulled back from «The Religion of Peace» - everyone - at all levels of government will have to deal with a revised public perception of Islam as a cultural threat.
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