Sentences with phrase «after the government ended»

But he added that technology problems, a shortage of qualified markers in English and geography, and a surge in the number of exams being sat — after the government ended the earlier autumn round of A-level sittings — meant that it was a close call.

After the government ended the fuel subsidies, prices for gasoline and other goods more than doubled, with gasoline jumping from $ 1.70 per gallon to $ 3.50 per gallon.

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That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos presented to his colleagues Friday a growth plan that the Greek government will deliver after the end of the financial assistance in August — an attempt to give creditors and markets a guarantee that the country will keep reforming the economy even without external help.

Tigerair Australia has permanently and immediately ended all flights between Australia and Bali, after failing to receive approvals from the Indonesian government.

On Tuesday, just after President Donald Trump ordered the government to end an Obama - era program that protected undocumented youth from deportation, Silicon Valley leaders condemned his decision and showed their support for those affected.

WASHINGTON, April 19 - The United States and Colombia on Thursday cited new evidence of fraud in Venezuela's food import program for the needy, saying part of the funds often ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials after being funneled through businesses in nearby countries.

Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticizing tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.

Further meetings between Boeing and the government will not occur until after the Carnival holiday, which ends next week, it reported.

U.K. housebuilders sank after media reports that the government is putting an end to the Help to Buy Scheme earlier than expected.

But four years after ending a bailout program, the Portuguese government is now forecasting a budget surplus — when state expenditure is lower than revenues.

U.K. housebuilders sank on Friday after media reports that the government is putting an end to the Help to Buy Scheme earlier than expected.

Debt has grown 30 % since the end of 2010 alone, after a huge government stimulus package had already boosted the figure, as officials struggled to meet economic growth targets in 2014 and 2015.

And state and federal governments, after taking their percentage of the buy - in and assessing your winnings, end up with a lot more scratch than what the winner walks off with.

A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

The government only allows a student a certain amount per year, so that they don't end up owing more than $ 50k after four years... less if you're a dependent of your parents.

Twitter promises to provide advance notice to users about government data demands, but does not promise to provide notice after an emergency has ended or a gag has been lifted.

«I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform» Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday.

Mayo could be setting a trap... after all the government works for the Sinaloa Cartel... not for el mencho... this could be the beginning of the end for mencho...

Credit spreads have tightened globally, and U.S. credit spreads are at the narrow end of their 17 - year range against government bonds — even after a recent widening.

Hungary's budget deficit was 1.73 trillion forint in 2011, 252 percent of the government's initial year - end target, after the government assumed debt from counties and the state railway company in December, the Economy Ministry said in an e-mailed statement today.

It began after the government reported Friday that average wage gains, which have been lackluster for years, had surged 2.9 percent in the 12 months that ended in January.

Yet if the government ends up on the hook, Najib will no longer be able argue that the fund he championed managed to clean up after itself.

U.S. government bond yields and the dollar rose, while U.S. stocks fell on Sept. 20 after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to increase interest rates one more time by the end of the year despite a recent bout of low inflation.

After forty - four years of PC Party - government in Alberta end earlier this year, politics in this province could still be in flux.

«Families in B.C. are struggling to make ends meet, and yet the Liberal government is rolling out one fee increase after another while making reckless cuts to services British Columbians depend on.»

What the federal government has done is extend the capital cost allowance for manufacturers for investments made after 2015 and before 2026 (it was set to expire at the end of 2015.)

The Oil & Petrochemical Industries Workers Confederation agreed to end the walkout after the government refused to negotiate while labor was off the job.

VICTORIA — After months of pressure the Christy Clark government has finally agreed to end benefit clawback policies that drove families deeper into poverty, says B.C. New Democrat social development spokesperson Michelle Mungall.

Thus when, over fifty years after Winthrop's sermon, John Locke discusses the purpose or the end of government he finds it to be not love, as Winthrop would have said, nor justice, as Aristotle would have said, but:

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Government programs end up with layer after layer of administrators and overseers sucking money out of the fund.

The very search for a solution to life's problem was to the writer only «a striving after wind,» (Ecclesiastes 1:13 - 14) and in the end, seeing wickedness in the place of justice and evil men where the righteous should have been, (Ecclesiastes 3:16) he «hated life,» (Ecclesiastes 2:17) denied all moral government in the world, and concluded that although a man, in the intensity of his search, «see no sleep with his eyes day or night,» he will never understand what life is all about.

South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has promised a «new dawn» for South Australia after his party won the state election and ended 16 years of Labor Government.

The South Australian Liberals adopted the 10 - year moratorium as a policy cornerstone in late 2016, and aren't budging after a win in the March 17 state election by Mr Marshall ended 16 years of Labor government.

In the end, the threat of a government shutdown — perhaps strongest in the closely divided state Senate — was defused after Democratic lawmakers from both conferences backed the legislation to continue to temporarily fund state government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year ended a retired horse racing panel through a veto after saying it was part of needless government bureaucracy.

The statement announced four party decisions and five government plans after the more than four hour discussion that ended after 11:00 pm.

Whatever kind of government we end up with after the election, it's far from clear this problem will be decisively addressed.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

As the expected end of the UK's membership to the European Union is planned for 29 March 2019, after that day the UK government could argue that a ruling from the European Court of Justice is no longer applicable, and it may keep the content of the IPAct unaltered, setting back efforts to protect privacy.

Soon after he was elected in 2010, Orban's government ended mandatory payments into the private funds and nationalised most of the money they contained.

Hopes that the new year could bring an end to the unsavoury dispute between the government and junior doctors have been dashed after talks have once again failed to reach a resolution.

But where it starts getting very dangerous indeed is over the size of government debt, which stood at under # 500bn in 2006, but which, even after all the pain of the spending cuts, will stand at the end of this Parliament at a whopping # 1.5 tn.

Subsequently, three months after we filed the European Court case, the government agreed to consult on ending the ban on same - sex marriage.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

Citizens Party office holders are forbidden to represent or lobby on behalf of any foreign government or corporation for a period of (8) eight years after the end of their service.

Nigerian stocks had previously rallied 8.5 per cent after the government floated the naira and ended a highly controversial currency peg.

News Corporation could yet acquire BSkyB, after culture secretary Jeremy Hunt ended the government's opposition to the merger on «media plurality» grounds.