Sentences with phrase «attempts by government»

Still, the virtual currency remains subject to wild price swings, and attempts by government regulators to crackdown on the cryptocurrency have unsettled investors.

He added that the company is always in the middle of fighting any attempts by the government to interfere with user privacy.

There have been numerous attempts by the government to dismiss the case completely.

One of the major problems with attempts by government to select winners in the selection of energy sources is that they are almost certain to select inefficient and quite possibly even environmentally inferior choices compared to leaving these choices to the workings of the market.

Also, Greg Jericho in The Guardian and Bernard Keane in Crikey (paywalled) refute the attempts by the government and its apologists to claim that inequality is not growing in Australia.

There is, in other words, a strong argument against attempts by government to use schooling to achieve political or cultural change - or stability, for that matter.

The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas has kicked against attempts by government to establish a fertiliser plant, saying it would be economically unwise to do so.

According to him, the recent failed attempts by the government to meet its target for the first tranche of the energy bond was an indication of the inability of the Economic management...

«In addition, the attempts by Government to undermine the pay of teachers even further, by the use of more discretionary payments and by enabling schools to reduce the pay of teachers on the Upper Pay Range, have been roundly rejected and soundly defeated.

Mr. Tagoe was recently embroiled in the attempts by the government and the Ghana Police to cover up the corruption scandal involving two deputy Chiefs of Staff at Korlebu, Francis Asenso Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor.

Speaking at the 36th anniversary of the 31st December Revolution the former president noted that, attempts by his government to undertake huge economic transformations caused the party's defeat in the 2016 elections.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) plans to resist any attempts by government to deny workers their benefits and remuneration.

There is not the slightest hint of this and Her Majesty's Opposition takes the integrity of official secrets as seriously as the government despite attempts by government spokespersons to smear and spin to the contrary.

Attempts by government to establish «just prices,» a practice going back to the Middle Ages, only inhibited and distorted economic development.

News Release Senator Doug Black is pleased that the Senate agreed to hold an emergency debate tonight on attempts by the government of British Colombia to stall the development of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

He has not been afraid to tackle controversial issues and to defend them despite attempts by the Government to discredit him professionally.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

Devaluation means a deliberate attempt by a government or central bank to lower the value of its currency in foreign - exchange markets.

Before bitcoin sold off in December last year, Rogoff told CNBC last October that prices of the digital currency would «collapse» amid attempts by governments to regulate the space.

No permanent improvement to mankind can result from the attempt by government to remove the necessity of the struggle for existence.»

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

These persons believe that any attempt by government to promote a particular conception of the good life is, given the pluralistic nature of American society, imprudent at best.

At the heart of this case Hobby Lobby is merely the willing tool of the the GOP agenda to say «no» to everything attempted by our government to benefit all Americans and religion is but a pretext.

According to them, they will fiercely resist any attempt by government to finance its free SHS policy with the Heritage fund because the fund is a future investment which must not be touched now.

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.

Any attempt by Government to do so has an obviously self - serving quality, and close examination of its motives is appropriate.

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

Today's announcement is the latest attempt by the government to find a narrative on excessive drinking which will resonate with young Britons.

Mr. Portuphy, who described the development as an attempt by the government to scare...

Conference commits the National Executive to working with the TUC to challenge, using all appropriate means, including industrial action, any attempt by the Government, in response to and as a remedy for economic difficulties or recession, to worsen pension provisions for teachers or other public sector workers.

«A most farcical cover up has been attempted by this government in the BOST contaminated fuel corruption scandal.

Former Deputy Information Minister under the John Dramani Mahama led administration, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described the supposed investigation carried out by the Bureau of National Investigation and the National Security as a farcical cover up attempted by the government.

Gun control is an attempt by the government to guarantee the right of an individual not to be shot by a gun.

«If the Conservative party returns to the government next year I certainly will not support any attempt by government to timetable all bills.

She said it will therefore be absurd for one to suggest that the implementation of a law passed by Parliament is a threat to media plurality and a calculated attempt by government to kill some radio stations because of their perceived political bias.

Conversely though there have been several attempts by governments over the years to counter perceived bias by appointing their own supporters.

The statement said the publication was an attempt by the government «to use false and malicious publications to bring the name of the former President into disrepute.»

Mike Weir of the SNP called it «ridiculous» and Green party MP Caroline Lucas branded it «an attempt by the government to get rid of social housing».

According to him, his businesses are far and wide and well established across the African continent and no attempt by government can break him.

The deal, currently before the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, appears to be another desperate attempt by the government to contain Ghana's ever biting power crisis which, according to analysts, continues to suffocate business and household...

Mr. Portuphy, who described the development as an attempt by the government to scare them, said the party would remain defiant despite the arrest of one of their top officials.

Some people from Keta and Anloga on Thursday hit the streets to protest against the attempt by the government to begin oil exploration close to the Keta Basin.

Seventeen academy trusts, 11 schools, three universities, three councils and two other organisations were given special treatment after a «disastrous» first attempt by the government to get teacher training providers registered, which saw only around a third pass the application process.

The paper published on Wednesday included the first attempt by government statisticians to come up with figures that set out how many children from different income brackets go to grammar schools.

This is not an attempt by the government to better acquaint itself with the educational needs of our children

Doug Hoyes: - that this has been in the work, the laws surrounding debt settlement services in Ontario are set to change in an attempt by the government to curb these perceived abuses of the debt settlement industry.

«That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.»

The NBN is an attempt by the government to «own» access to the world wide web.

Unfortuantely, what we saw today was yet another attempt by this government to mislead the public into believing that they have adressed this issue.

Its similar to Monckton claiming the «x10 typo» was a deliberate attempt by government bureaucrats to deceive the world, although one would think that if you were going to try and deceive people you would at least make the column add up.