Sentences with phrase «governments have interests»

Governments have interests other than trade, including the protection of the environment and the preservation of resources for use in the future.

Addressing MPs this afternoon, Mr Darling justified the multi-billion pound intervention, saying the government had an interest in maintaining financial stability.

This government has no interest in people transcending their surroundings.

Speculations were that there was a lot of negotiating to do with each province, since almost every local government has an interest linked to agriculture or natural resources exploitation.

The answer is that this Government has no interest at all in maintaining access to justice because, as the defendant, it sees this as the problem itself.

Being in possession of burglary tools does not directly harm anyone, but the government has an interest in preventing burglaries, so it can instead make it a crime to have such tools, and on that basis a person can be arrested.

The federal government joined the Conference in the 1940s, in part as a forum for criminal law changes (administration and law), and in part for civil - side initiatives where the federal government has an interest.

The government has no interest in records relating to the 1.3 million IP addresses that are mentioned in DreamHost's numerous press releases and Opposition brief.

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The threat of a trade war would also freak out the overseas investors we count on to buy our government bonds, and keep our interest rates at super-low levels.

And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles.

Many Chinese government offices have been public about their interest in taking advantage of the blockchain technology for tasks like tracking people and products moving through industrial supply chains.

As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The British government said on Thursday it would refer Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of European pay - TV group Sky to regulators to decide if the deal was in the public interest.

He talks about hosting roundtables across the country, bringing together disparate groups that would otherwise never communicate with each other: «That's the job of government, to consult, to offer lots of opportunity for a discussion, and then to make a decision that we believe to be in the national interest.»

At that point, interest payments would absorb more than $ 1 in $ 5 of federal revenue, crippling the government's capacity to bolster the economy, and constraining the private sector too.

For what it's worth, I think the strategy would also likely be ineffective: Suppose, notwithstanding our legal mandate, the Federal Reserve were to raise interest rates for the purpose of making it more expensive for the government to borrow.

Time and again the Works Council, or Betriebsrat, which holds eight of VW's 20 board seats, has played a decisive role, mobilizing the support of the state government to get its way over the interests of private shareholders.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

If we came to learn that excessive household debt posed a bigger threat to economic growth than does a certain level of government debt, then policy makers would want to take that into account when setting interest rates.

The justices will also have to determine whether the contraception and fertility requirements of the Affordable Care Act pose a substantial burden to businesses, and whether the government has a compelling interest in imposing these provisions.

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

We have an enormous vested interest in helping the Mexican government win the war with the drug cartels.

The federal government has indicated its interest in a free trade deal with China, something that would undoubtedly take years to negotiate but would result in closer economic relations.

Ferguson slammed the massive amounts of government spending in the U.S., arguing it would push up interest rates and lead to stagflation.

The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship more challenging to undertake.

The key is to open a dialogue with the proper government office and see if they would take an interest in your company.

He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government bond yield near 0 percent in an effort to control the yield curve and stepping up the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.

The federal government has made sweeping cuts to red tape as small and medium businesses grow more confident about the year ahead, but a growing number believes the state government is working against their best interests, according to the latest Sensis survey.

Argentina, with its deep devaluation of the peso, China hiding its economic intentions, and Turkey with its knee - jerk movement in interest rates are examples of how governments have perhaps acted «selfishly.»

And if interest rates go up, the government would have to pay much more to finance the more than $ 14 trillion in Treasury debt held by investors.

«We played our cards based on Quebec's interests,» Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe said in a post-budget scrum, indicating that his party would not be propping up the government.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

The government had argued before the Ninth Circuit that the TRO should apply only to lawful permanent residents, because as it stands it «covers aliens who can not assert cognizable liberty interests.»

The WA ministers in Julia Gillard's new government will have their hands full juggling the competing interests of their state and federal responsibilities.

The Federal Reserve's ultra-low interest - rate policy since the financial crisis may have lent support to a listless economy and made the government's massive debt a lot easier to finance, but it's been more than hard on retirees and conservative savers.

The Trump White House, by contrast, in its vetting of Flynn either failed to detect or overlooked the fact that Flynn had been lobbying on behalf of Turkish government interests throughout the latter half of 2016.

Consumers aren't going to like this, but eventually, the federal government will have to step in, so it's in the auto industry's best interest to get ahead of the curve, and 2018 — with sales continuing to be strong and profits rolling in — is the year to take the hit.

IBM has an interest in ensuring that the government chooses not to restrict the use of artificial intelligence.

Never has the U.S. government been more interested in whether a worker is properly classified as an independent contractor or W - 2 employee as right now.

Scotland's governing Scottish National Party has threatened to try to block the progress of key legislation that will sever legal ties with the EU unless the government does more to account for Scotland's interests in Brexit.

«This has significant negative implications for transparency and government oversight, as well as for media and others who have a legitimate interest in understanding the Secretary's time in office.»

British manufacturing has been left in the margins for far too long and the dearth of investment in fixed capital is something that this Conservative government has absolutely no interest in, or no concept of.

Many government and private ethics watchdogs said he should have gone further, divesting himself of assets that could cause a conflict of interest.

Google has never shown much interest in government contracting, and spying on individuals runs counter to its business model.

Some borrowers can have the federal government pay part of their interest or their debt forgiven after 20 or 25 years of payments.

At issue is whether the federal government has violated the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents the government from substantially burdening individuals of faith, unless it can prove a compelling interest.

The carmakers» remarks were echoed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government spokesman who said Germany wanted to avoid a trade war with the United States because it believed such a conflict would be in nobody's interest.

The latest jobs numbers prove a point: Putting government policy over business interests has been a disastrous failure for the American worker.

The most interesting thing about the leak is that it appears to have been carried out with the assistance of certain elements within the Russian government, according to a statement from the U.S. intelligence department.