Sentences with phrase «after the government recently»

This comes after the government recently announced new cryptocurrency standards in the country.

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Recently, the fate of CNOOC's bid for beleaguered Calgary oilsands producer Nexen became even more uncertain after the federal government blocked a $ 6 - billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia's Petronas at the eleventh hour.

Protectionism is a hot topic yet again after governments killed two major business deals recently.

«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.

While the project had significant potential when first announced, and Petronas signalled continued commitment to it as recently as last year — after the Trudeau government finally approved the project — the market has been weakening since and it wasn't a huge surprise that they announced a cancellation.

Most recently, Donald Trump Jr. also attracted sharp scrutiny for meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, described as a «Russian government lawyer,» last June after being offered information that could compromise Hillary Clinton's candidacy.

After two years of leading the most hard - right, grumpy and ideological faction in Alberta's legislature, he recently told the Calgary Sun that «hard - right governments» offering harsh budget slashes will no longer succeed in Alberta.

2) The gold price shed nearly 5 % after the government of China announced recently that they owned 1,658 metric tons of gold.

The Nepalese government recently confirmed it would be changing the word, after it conducted a survey of its people and found most preferred the words «Hindu» or «religious freedom» to define the state instead.

Recently the Japanese government asked internet providers to block websites that promote suicide and suicide methods, such as hydrogen sulphide on the internet after their was a rash of suicides committed using these techniques in the past few months.

Instead, the integrity of the drafting process is being questioned after egg industry representatives were recently accused of engaging in «systemic collusion» with the NSW Government to thwart moves to outlaw battery hens.

He was most recently seen in the media doing a spontaneous «sugar tax dance «after the British Government declared its levy on the soft drinks industry this Wednesday.

The environment, food and rural affairs committee recently recommended that the government publish Brexit impact assessments on a range of agricultural areas before it releases any legislation on what the sector will look like after Brexit.

This began when some people from the Andani Royal family recently called on government and national security to intervene to avert any violent clashes after the Abudu Royal family served notice that they will forcibly enter the Gbewaa Palace to perform the funeral rites of late regent, Naa Abdulai Muhamadu IV.

Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) recently became Europe's youngest head of government after reaching a coalition agreement with the right - wing FPÖ.

For example, according to a poll conducted by Survation for the campaigning organisation, 38 Degrees, as many as 62 % believe that, after Brexit, the Scottish Parliament should have responsibility for food, farming, fishing and the environment, while only 25 % believe that the UK government should have control, a finding that echoes research recently conducted by ScotCen.

Dr. Afriyie Akoto said the fund could be used to mitigate the plight of farmers in distressed times, like recently where some farmers have been calling for the government's financial support after their farms were ravaged by armyworms.

After concerted campaigning by EMLD, supported by SLF, within the party for acceptance of the report's recommendations, our representatives in government have already begun implementation in some areas: Nick Clegg personally intervened recently to add a raft of diversity issues to Michael Gove's National Curriculum.

«[Cameron and Hollande] discussed how to build on the non-lethal support recently announced by the UK and agreed that France and the UK would work more closely to identify how they could bolster the opposition and help a potential transitional Syrian government after the inevitable fall of Assad,» the spokesperson said.

He added that recently after a request by the Nigerian government, 13 experts were sent by the British government to assist with the menace of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).

Mr Gove, who frequently clashed with the new Prime Minister, returns to the backbenches after six years in Government as Education Secretary, Chief Whip and most recently Justice Secretary.

The study was supposed to have been released in June, after it was reviewed by the federal government, and as recently as this morning, New York State's transportation commissioner was apparently still unaware that the review was complete.

In an interview with State House correspondents after the meeting, the minister appealed to the Niger Delta Avengers that recently called off their ceasefire to be more patient with the government.

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

SUNY Poly funded its Buffalo Billion projects through a private nonprofit that maintained, until recently, it was shielded from complying with the state Freedom of Information Law, even after the state Committee on Open Government declared that it was not.

The Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, has appeared before the Government Assurances Committee in Parliament to set the record straight after comments he recently made to clarify his promise to end the country's power crisis.

He returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

About seven persons were recently killed while two others sustained varied degrees of injuries after a wielding gas cylinder exploded in Ruba Village of Kafin Hausa Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

In fact, after a meeting of the legal committee of the NGF at the Plateau State Governors Lodge in Abuja recently, it was disclosed that «with the decision of the legal committee of the NGF to push for the payment of all outstanding fees to all state consultants, the on - going legal battle between the governments on one hand and the consultants that pursued the repayment of the excess deductions made on Nigeria's repayment of foreign loans, will end and the prospect of fresh ones averted.»

The governor made the statement in an interview with Saturday PUNCH recently, immediately after leading security chiefs on a surveillance tour of the five local government areas that share boundaries with Benue State aboard a helicopter.

After violent encounters last year, another group of previously isolated Korubo recently made contact with local settlers and government officials.

Authors of a paper recently published in the Journal of Technology Transfer interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty or instructor positions after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers.

Heartland has recently been in the headlines after the release of their list «Red Team» nominees sent to the Trump EPA in an attempt to create a government sanctioned debate on the scientific consensus on climate change.

(In English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 years.

After an unsuccessful attempt with a «Cat People» remake at Warner Bros, Bill Condon and producer Michael Laughlin decided to collaborate on Condon's early version of «Dead Kids,» and with assistance from Hemdale and tax incentives from the New Zealand government, began production in northern New Zealand, with an eclectic mix of American actors: Dan Shor had recently appeared in John Huston's «Wise Blood»; Dey Young had just debuted in «Rock and Roll High School»; Michael Murphy was a Woody Allen alumnus; and Mark McClure had achieved a kind of immortality as Jimmy Olson in the «Superman» films.

The three judicial laws recently passed by the National Assembly, after seven minutes of debate, will compromise the independence of the judiciary by providing the executive branch of government, via the Ministry of Justice, with control over the courts» finances, personnel and general administration.

Recently, Victorian, Western Australian and ACT governments announced they would withdraw from a trial of the online NAPLAN technology, after South Australia and Queensland withdrew it earlier in the year.

Another sign that we are making a difference: A group of educators from a school in Sofia that focuses on math and science recently wrote a proposal for teacher training, and, after securing funding from the federal Ministry of Education and the local government, they invited our lab to provide the instruction — the first time the teachers themselves hired us to do the training.

The government has also faced criticism for its seemingly increasing free school spend, most recently after spending # 33.5 million to buy premises for a secondary free school in Highbury, north London — next to two other schools.

In any case, after nearly a decade of investigations and negotiations, costing untold amounts of money, the federal government and the State of Connecticut recently signed an agreement that the State of Connecticut will pay back a portion of the funds....

Tesla faced intense scrutiny after news broke of a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S using Autopilot in May, with Consumer Reports pressuring the company to scale back Autopilot functions until they can be perfected, and more recently the German government urging Tesla to change the Autopilot name.

Most recently, the bankruptcy of battery - supplier A123 Systems in October — after steaming through $ 249 million in government loans — hasn't been a helpful image, especially since Fisker, itself the recipient of $ 529 million from the U.S. government and $ 21.5 million from Delaware, has long since had its government credit halted for failing to meet production targets.

But when a sizeable number of states recently wanted to make up for lost revenue coming out of a severe recession, several state governments went after arguably the biggest fish in the online retailer pond, Amazon.com.

H.N. Wake has only recently arrived to fiction after living in Africa, Asia and Europe for 20 years where she worked primarily with the US Government.

Real yields (the yield after accounting for inflation) on government bonds have risen recently, but are still around zero.

The federal government recently upped the Old Age Security (OAS) benefit age from 65 to 67 for anyone born after March 1958.

Sri Lanka aims to make a record US$ 3.5 billion from tourism this year on the back of its improved rights record under a new government after years of ethnic war, while a series of world - class properties have recently opened in the destination.

He has recently created major public art projects: Scaffold (2012), installed at the Walker Art Center in 2017 and now in an ongoing process of transformation after mediations with Dakota Native American elders, represented gallows used in seven hangings from 1859 to 2006 sanctioned by the U.S. government; Labyrinth (2015) in Philadelphia, PA, addressed mass incarceration; and The Meeting House (2016) in Concord, MA, examined the subject of race in colonial and contemporary New England.

After all, Australia, one of the more progressive countries on this earth (it's been illegal NOT to vote there since 1925) has recently changed governments partly because their carbon tax was so unpopular.

David Montgomery recently retired as Senior Vice President of NERA Economic Consulting after a 40 year career of teaching, government service and consulting.