Sentences with phrase «about taking over government»

So, for someone to talk so authoritatively and daringly about taking over government in Edo State, I think its unbecoming of the Rivers governor, particularly when you look at the history of his own election in Rivers and how many lives were lost.

Not exact matches

I'd originally emailed Grant with some questions about cellphone subsidies, but we soon got to talking about the government's recent refusal to allow Telus to take over Mobilicity, and what that means to other potential spectrum deals involving Rogers, Shaw and Videotron.

«Socialism is about having the government take over the economy, owning the means of production, and — most importantly — allocating resources....

Whether that's this year in 2018 or 2019, I don't know, but I do know that over the next 3 years this big reversal that we talk about in the paper is going to unfold and is going to take away all the options from the governments that have fiat currencies.

In the UK, the likes of Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, and Alliance and Leicester have all been taken over by rivals or the UK Government, while the UK's largest mortgage lender, HBOS, is about to be gobbled up by Lloyds TSB, which itself has seen better days.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

But when I pass a guy on the street who tells me that the government is trying to use him to take over the world I don't necessarily stop and have a conversation about it.

If I were the minister, I would rather have been all over the place talking about how bad things were and how long it would take to fix them and ask people to bear with me and make sacrifices and demonstrate the sacrifices that the government too was making by asking every ministry to turn off appliances at certain times, etc..

In the face of growing public concern about price promotions and underage drinking the government has taken steps to reduce alcohol - related harms on health and crime and disorder, which together cost over # 10 billion every year.

He said «as far as I know, nobody from the current Govt asked for any vehicle... Why would this government ask the previous one to procure vehicles when they were about to take over?»

Today, whilst the government is busy chasing Ghanaian youth out of small scale mining for Chinese and other nationals to take over, we wish to remind the Ghanaian people that China as a country has over 102 types of mineral deposits in over 3000 mine beds with an estimated value of about $ 100 billion.

The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo, of peddling falsehood about the state of the economy he inherited from the previous administration According to Kofi Adams, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government took over the most stable economy of any administration in the fourth republic.

Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.

In another private room, at The Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Rep. Joe Crowley, state party leaders and about 10 of New York's most powerful union heads spoke for more than an hour about taking back congressional seats held in New York by Republicans as well as taking over the State Senate to sweep its hold of state government.

Gov. Phil Murphy promised when he took over state government about a month ago from Republican Chris Christie that his administration would «resist» Trump, a Republican, at every turn.

The cleric was particularly bitter about the current situation with several mission schools taken over by governments, describing what is presently obtainable in such schools as nothing to write home about.

On Friday, for the second straight day, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs faced a barrage of questions at his daily briefing about why the federal government is not intervening to take over responsibility for the cleanup from BP.

«Four years ago we took over a government deeply divided and in many ways paralyzed, unable to resolve issues and move forward,» Bellone said in a 30 - minute speech to about 400 people.

«The NDC government took over in 2009 and ordered all projects to stop and so the cold stores construction which was on going, and the Nyanyaano one about almost completed, was stopped till 2015 (6 years) and just last week that of Shama and Half Assini after 7 years were commissioned.»

Despite the governor's strong reservations about the plan in place to take over Mr. Silver's duties — and his repeated urging that the scandal not get in the way of the functioning of government — Mr. Cuomo did not call for Mr. Silver to resign his post as speaker, as some, including speaker candidate Assembly Keith Wright, have begun to do this week.

Official entry point to South African government provides news and information along with background material about the land, its people and history Since Nelson Mandela and the communist African National Congress (ANC) took over South Africa, more than 70,000 whites have been murdered and untold

I suspect, moreover, that this complexity may take a still different form over the next year or so, as the tragedy of September 11 generates an upswing in support for government institutions, along with an increasing aversion to change and uncertainty — all of which could show up (temporarily) in the way people respond to survey items about vouchers.

The report recommends over 20 interventions the government should take to improve the role of regional schools commissioners, with a particular focus on publishing more information about RSC decisions and the precise detail of their role.

The government was wrong to talk about extremists attempting to take over Birmingham's schools, former councillor Salma Yaqoob has said.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

«If the county government took over the operations of the SPCA, the estimate would be about an 8 - cent tax increase,» Derella said, noting if the local SPCA closed, the agency's North Delsea Drive building and other assets would pass to the state SPCA.

In other news, Gamespot reported recently that the Bolivian government are none too happy about the portrayal of their country in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, threatening to take Ubisoft to court over the slightly drug - heavy stereotyping that the game leans on.

While there is a lot of skepticism over so - called «clean coal» technologies, which look to capture and store carbon emissions, a major government and industry initiative is about to take a small step closer to testing some of that controversial and cutting - edge technology.

They are increasingly facing resistance from governments concerned about pollution and climate change; the United Nations is taking the position that fossil fuels must be put out of business over the next thirty years or so, which will reduce their revenues by hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and the simultaneous loss in stranded assets is calculated to be up to $ 100 trillion.

Today, federal government take - over of money - losing nuclear plants might be something to seriously start talking about.

It was about time the government took advantage of the know - how this group of people have gained over the years.

Australian government has gotten more vocal about taking Japan to court over their whale hunting that they claim is for scientific research - a loophole that allows them to avoid restrictions on whaling.

Civil society must remain vocal about its concerns over the direction that government is taking and the degree to which corruption and sycophancy have become embedded in all levels of government and society.

Given the control that governments are able to exert over Parliament — it was not for nothing that the former lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, referred to the UK's system of government as an «elective dictatorship» — the content of the Queen's Speech takes on an added significance in that it enlightens us about the laws which are likely to be enacted during the forthcoming Parliamentary session.

I disagree with him about the notwithstanding clause — hardly ever used outside Quebec, and I don't think that's a problem; about property rights — an open invitation to fight every kind of government action on the basis that one's property (i.e. right to do whatever one wants without regard to others) has been infringed (the US took over 100 years to fight that one out, and the right to govern is back under attack there); and about secession — in fact the SCC managed to give a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution (not the Charter in particular) on that point.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Whenever big entities have pushed their way into small firm solicitor services, the public has been badly hurt in every way with the title insurance experience in the US being a prime example (they took over most of the conveyancing and promptly set about screwing the public — «a dysfunctional industry in which the public pays too much» according to the government of the State of California).

«Panel Grills Gonzales Over Spy Program»: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «Senators demanded details Thursday from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about new orders putting the government's domestic spying program under court review — and questioned why it took so long to do so.

An earlier precedent can be found in Egypt where over 1,000 judges threatened to boycott presidential and Parliamentary elections in 2005 unless the government took steps to control corruption, and even earlier in 1968 the judiciary was so outspoken about Nasser's war policy that he dismissed them in what became known as the «massacre of the judiciary».

The governments there took over the regulation, put it in the hands of their beholden appointees, and then, not caring much about the hard - won, over centuries, independence (hard - won viz - a-viz the governments!!)