Sentences with phrase «by government edict»

With the level of risk today the interest rate should be > 12 % but it is kept artificially low by government edict.

Japan has a mix of commercial and noncommercial broadcasting, and Japan «s NHK, one of the most - respected news organizations in the world, was created and is sustained by government edict.

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I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.

With the American West of the post-Civil War period as the backdrop, the book delves into the displacement of Native Americans by a host of government edicts.