Sentences with phrase «government clamping down on»

With the Quebec government clamping down on building inspections across the province, Atwill - Morin has swung from primarily doing restoration of public buildings to working on private real estate.

It's probably worth noting that diesels may well become significantly more expensive to run in future as governments clamp down on the pollution they produce - and some plan to ban diesel vehicles entirely in cities.

«For those of us in the exchange space, the possibility of governments clamping down on exchanges is a foregone conclusion ever since bitcoin was first noticed by the government.

Not exact matches

Pareteum Corp. fell as much as 25 percent as of 10:16 a.m. in New York, while Digital Power Corp. and LongFin Corp. each slipped more than 6 percent after South Korea's government said it wanted to clamp down on speculation, potentially by shutting down some exchanges.

The government has been creating tax loopholes for business while clamping down on regular taxpayers

to deny service to government employees and law enforcement officials it suspected were trying to clamp down on its operations.)

In a series of interviews last weekend, Industry Minister James Moore also suggested the government may enact protections to prevent airline customers from being bumped from overbooked planes, clamp down on mobile roaming charges in Canada and control hidden credit - card fees.

When clamping down on what's shared on social media, the government's hands are actually more tied than, say, Facebook or Twitter through their terms of service.

In the Netherlands, finance minister Wopke Hoekstra announced that the government would seek to regulate cryptocurrencies to clamp down on their improper use.

Specifically, Finance Minister Kim Dong - yeon had told a local radio station that the government would be coming up with a set of measures to clamp down on the «irrational» cryptocurrency investment craze.

If so, it could be more than just your home government that will clamp down on storing assets elsewhere.

Governments increasingly are trying to clamp down on the «dark web» sites where bitcoin quickly was the cryptocurrency of choice.

The» 9/11 mosque...» Never have so many republicans been so eager for GOVERNMENT to clamp down on PRIVATE PROPERTY for the sake of the collective!

«It is another attempt by a Government to clamp down on free speech in the guise of combating extremism.

«The government needs to realise a Christmas campaign is just not enough and that instead we need a real clamp down on drink and drug driving.»

#StopGalamseyNow is a campaign that calls on government to undertake five steps to clamp down on the menace which is destroying the county's land and water resources, and may see Ghana resorting to the importation of clean water in the next two decades.

In today's budget (22 November), Philip Hammond confirmed that the government would take further steps to clamp down on businesses who sell through online marketplaces but fail to pay VAT.

Governments seem determined to clamp down on small unemployment benefits, but not on executive directors» huge bonuses.

Despite its innocuous title, the Statute Law represented an attempt by the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to clamp down on the activities of civil society groups that had supported his prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

The coalition's efforts to clamp down on immigration have also been criticised for damaging the higher education sector, with figures from the industry saying government policy is robbing the UK of billions in investment.

His guarantee that a future Labour government would repeal the anti-trade union legislation, clamp down on tax evasion and stop British dependencies being used as tax havens would improve the living standards of millions.

It's good that the Regulatory Policy Committee is there to clamp down on this sort of bad regulation, and we welcome the Government's progress so far on this issue, but the RPC needs real powers if it is to drive change and challenge Whitehall culture.

Keith Vaz stands to ask when the government will clamp down on video game violence.

In government, the Conservatives» focus has been on looking for technological ways of clamping down on young people's access to pornography.

The Residents are calling on the Ondo State Police Command and the state government to clamp down on the hoodlums who allegedly used the abandoned new stadium as abode.

According to WACAM, some illegal mining groups are putting their resources together to violently resist any group [including government] that attempts to clamp down on their activities.

He will also make the argument that this Government is not prepared to clamp down on tax avoidance, but instead wants to engage in a race to the bottom in low corporation tax rates.

The Lagos State Government had last Wednesday said that it has stepped up efforts to clamp down on illegal jetty and boat operators in the State in a renewed effort to stem the tide of boat mishaps often caused by illegal operations on the inland waterways.

Known as the National Red Friday, the day was declared by the coalition to demonstrate their anger against the illegal activities and thereby draw public attention and sensitise them to the government's action to clamp down on galamsey activities throughout the country.

The move is a clear attempt to clamp down on the growing power of the grassroots boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement which aims to end government and corporate complicity with Israel's violations of Palestinian rights.

The government is planning to block mobile phones in prison, in a bid to clamp down on organised crime.

«Keeping those tax dollars - our tax dollars - would reveal that your professed commitment to clamp down on government waste is just a hollow promise,» union boss Michael Hoffert wrote.

The Andoma of Doma in Nasarawa State, s, has called on the Federal and State governments to as a matter of urgency clamp down on those...

The Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has refuted assertions the clamp down by government and its agencies on Exton Cubic Group Limited are politically motivated.

The government has since taken a number of actions including suspending the issuance of new licences for the small - scale mining in the country, and it has announced the retrieval of some illegal mining equipment, surrendered by the operators following the massive drive to clamp down on their activities.

Before the election Labour had already sketched out a number of measures that a government serious about clamping down on the abuses of zero - hour contracts could adopt.

Hundreds of workers of some textile manufacturing companies in the country have hit the streets of Accra to demonstrate over government's failure to put measures in place to clamp down on pirated textiles on the market.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is helping councils clamp down faster on illegal encampments and unauthorised traveller sites.

The Owerri NBA chairman accused the federal government of desecrating the Judiciary, disobedience to court orders, clamp down on non-violent protesters, treating the issue of Mr president's ill health with secrecy, among others.

After the Donora tragedy, the federal government began to clamp down on industries that release pollutants into the air.

Some cancellations stem from policy guidance that the U.S. government issued to agencies this spring to clamp down on travel by government scientists to Russia.

Meanwhile, in Australia, as summer temperatures hovered near 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) and murderous flames converted forests into carbon dioxide, a new book entitled Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population issued an unusual ecological battle cry: ignore all admonitions to conserve the country's increasingly scarce water supplies until the government eliminates «baby bonuses» in the tax code and clamps down on immigration.

A presidential bioethics commission concluded this week that the U.S. government should not clamp down too hard on research on synthetic biology, a young field that it says doesn't yet pose serious risks.

A move by the last government to clamp down on schools considered to be coasting was passed by parliament in 2016 as part of the education and adoption act.

Given the current effort by the federal government to clamp down on some of the income «splitting and sprinkling» tax benefits of Canadian - Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs), there's definitely a lot of uncertainty among executives, business owners, and professionals about the tax benefits of incorporation.

The Canadian government has no plans for now to clamp down on the housing market even though prices are rising again, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty -LSB-...]

In Budget 2011, the Government proposed a clamp down on certain swap transactions between RRSPs and other accounts:

A landmark court case, reported here last week, proves that the Israeli Government is clamping down on polluters and protecting one of its only natural resources,

In the UK, the government is clamping down on the «unacceptably high» number of personal injury claims; is this an issue in Romania, whereby clients may take advantage of their insurance policy?

Last year, the federal government's budget took aim at small businesses by clamping down on ways to maximize the small business deduction.