Sentences with phrase «british government works»

Rejected by her family and his, the couple then faced opposition first from Khama's people, then, more sharply, from the British government working in collusion with apartheid - riddled South Africa.

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The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping point; we're not yet stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.

Jagmeet Singh, meanwhile, waded into the impasse in Ottawa by proposing that the Trudeau Liberals work with the British Columbia government on a joint reference question to the Supreme Court of Canada, fast - tracking a resolution to what the federal NDP leader calls jurisdictional issues arising from B.C.'s objections to the project.

There has been uproar from unions this week after it was learned more than 2,000 Chinese miners would be on their way to British Columbia to work in mines run by Canadian Dehua International, a Vancouver - based company founded and run by a former Chinese government official, to name one company involved.

«Indigenous peoples are being forced into long and costly court battles to defend their traditions and ways of life because governments in Canada still refuse to accept the need to work collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on important decisions about environmental protection and resource development,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Canada - ASEAN Business Council, the Business Council of Canada, and the University of British Columbia have worked together on this report in anticipation of the government - led feasibility study.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government found jobs for their political allies, but has failed for 30 months to help the thousands of other British Columbians looking for work, say the New Democrats.

«British Columbians deserve a government that is working for them, not just the wealthy and the well connected,» said Farnworth.

Founded in 1993 by a British ad man named Nigel Oakes, it is, basically, a messaging and PR firm that's done work for governments, politicians, and militaries around the world.

VICTORIA - Premier - designate John Horgan issued the following statement on being asked by the Lieutenant - Governor to lead a new government: «Today, British Columbia got a new government that will work every single day to make life better for people.

«Now we've learned that the premier's lead proponent told the government some time ago it will hire foreign workers to fill up to 70 per cent of the late stage construction jobs, passing up British Columbians looking for work.»

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

Rather, the man who had first worked at the intersection of ideas and power during his World War II service at the British Embassy in Washington was a Russo - English exponent of classic American New Deal liberalism: a liberal who believed that government had an obligation to secure the economic, social, and educational conditions under which people could truly exercise their liberty.

This is what James Eadie QC, Cameron's Government's expensive barrister, told the court (on his behalf): that the refusal to allow an NHS nurse and a British Airways worker to visibly wear a crucifix at work «did not prevent either of them practising religion in private», which would be protected by human rights law.

According to Paul Kenward, Managing Director of British Sugar: «We are one of Britain's most globally competitive industries and we are ready to work with farmers, importers and government to design a UK sugar policy that allows our world - leading domestic sugar industry to continue to thrive.»

We work alongside British Cycling to increase our political influence, lobbying government to make a sustained and resolute commitment to improving conditions for cyclists.

The lunch ladies he worked with here — they didn't have the power either, but he got a system up and running for fresh and healthy school food before he went to the British government.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Enemies Within is a substantial piece of work but does not claim to cover all aspects of the Soviet penetration of British government and intelligence agencies or the attempts to counter them.

Director General at the Association of British Insurers, Huw Evans, said: «Having worked with the previous Government on delivering sweeping reforms to the pensions market and on practical measures to reduce car insurance premiums and tackle flood risk, the insurance industry looks forward to a constructive relationship with the new Parliament.

Philip Hammond has implied the government is looking at changes to the way airport security works, after the chairman of British Airways called many measures «redundant».

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has pledged to continue to work proactively with all politicians across the UK, whether in government or opposition, to increase the value of shooting in Britain.

The BMF have a long record of lobbying on EU matters and working through FEMA (Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations) and the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme), as well as having discussions with the UK government, the BMF have made the case for British motorcycling.

One of the things the British government failed to do when it wrote up the psychoactive substance bill was check how things had worked out in two other countries which had tried it: Poland and Ireland.

And 72 % of those identifying themselves as English rather than British said they did not trust the government to work in the English interest.

Labour's Scottish executive committee chairwoman Cathy Peattie said: «Our next deputy leader in Scotland will have a crucial role in supporting Richard Leonard as we seek to form a government at British and Scottish levels, to deliver an economy that works for the many, not the few.»

«The British government will support all those working to achieve more open societies in the Middle East,» he said.

Local councillors are the backbone of British democracy, working tirelessly within communities to hold local government to account.

Everyday Life in British Government (OUP, # 25) builds on the author's earlier work Beyond Westminster and Whitehall (1988) and Understanding Governance (1997).

She said: «As a dedicated supporter of British business, who has spent years raising business issues from the outside, Lord Jones has said on many occasions how delighted he was to join the government as trade and investment minister, working as part of a successful team focused on maintaining the stability and competitiveness of the British economy.

Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association, said: «We are very supportive of any measures that will help young people to lead healthier lifestyles and will want to work with the government to ensure that any initiatives are delivered in a way that will achieve the most effective results.»

Staying in would allow British business to enjoy certainty and consistency as we left the EU and reduce the amount of work the UK government has to do before Brexit day.

The right - wing press — and the more extreme Brexiteers in government — have already portrayed peers as undemocratic, working to frustrate the will of the British people.

However, in December 2011, because no European agreement had been reached on enforcing the ban on battery cages, the British government announced that it had instead been working closely with the domestic egg industry, processors, food manufacturers, the food service sector and retailers to reach «a voluntary consensus» not to sell or use battery - farmed eggs and help British consumers to avoid buying them unwittingly.

The SWA would like to see the UK and Scottish governments work together to introduce this floor price across the British Isles.

«The government has been defeated because quite simply they tried to cross the basic line of British decency,» shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said.

James began his career working for Business for Sterling, the successful campaign against British membership of the European single currency, and he managed the No campaign against the proposed North East Regional Assembly in the 2004 referendum, which won an upset landslide against the government - backed Yes Campaign.

«After Brexit, we want to see a renaissance in British manufacturing... Our government will create an entrepreneurial state that works with the wealth creators, the workers and the entrepreneurs to create the products and the markets that will secure our long - term prosperity.»

What we established here is that the top 5 % of British people working to pay the highest levels of taxes — they pay about 50 % of all of the income tax under this Government.

[22] She said that the British Government would reinforce its commitment to make the arrangements work effectively.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

«We respect the will of the British people, but not the will of this Tory government to impose fewer rights at work and worse public services, while the largest corporations pay even less tax.

The best approach that the British government can take, in my view, is to try and work to get both sides to take that approach and not to get involved in being ultra-critical of one side or the other.»

The chair of the British Medical Association, Dr Mark Porter, said «The appointment of a new Health Secretary provides a fresh opportunity for doctors and government to work together to improve patient care and deal with the many challenges facing the NHS.»

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Researchers at the British Geological Survey carry out contract work for the government, industry and academia, so they need people who work well with clients as well as being scientifically bright, says Denise Langley, HR partner at the BGS.

But the system may not work without a compulsory scheme for dog registration, which the British government opposes.

They had each, of course, spent their careers working for a secret establishment of the British government; from their first day of employment they had felt themselves under the constraints of the Official Secrets Acts.