Sentences with phrase «by the past governments»

We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.

He attributed the country's current infrastructural deficit to the billions stolen by the past governments.

Tinubu said the billions of dollars and trillions of Naira stolen by past governments if used for the people, would have transformed the nation.

Mover of the motion, Sen. Babajide Omoworare, prayed that every naira spent by the past government on SURE - P and other poverty alleviation programmes should be accounted for.

Before you begin to go after crimes that, were committed by past government appointees, kindly take a look at the BOST fuel contaminated saga that is still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians, and which documents, testimonies etc, can easily be ascertained.

The revelations on the sorry state of things in the past, which have emanated from the investigative panel so far, point clearly to the kind of legacy bequeathed to this administration by the past government.

«Had the billions of dollars and trillions of naira that were stolen by past governments been used for the people, the nation would have been able to acquire the infrastructure and implement the programs that bring greater development and economic justice to all.

The Uhuru administration has been accused excessive borrowing, with an estimate that it has borrowed much more than the accumulative amount borrowed by all past governments since independence.

Fayose urged the senate to be mindful of the reality that many states in Nigeria were unable to pay workers salary now because of the huge debt left behind by past governments.

He has stopped all the policies initiated by the past governments that touched directly on the lives of the poor.

He ascribed cause of the flooding to the recent construction of flyover in the area by the past government, stating that the drainage systems in the area had been channel through the market while the gutters are not big enough to contain the floods whenever it rains.

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In a government memo, which was first spotted by Axios, U.S.C.I.S. argues that computer programmers are not presumed to be eligible for these visas, as they have been in the past.

The city government has for the past several months urged its citizens to drastically cut their consumption by taking short showers, and reusing the water in their toilets and gardens, among other measures.

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

The Ninth Circuit wrote that «in light of the Government's shifting interpretations of the Executive Order, we can not say that the current interpretation by White House counsel, even if authoritative and binding, will persist past the immediate stage of these proceedings.»

Santiago's startup scene — half - jokingly referred to as Chilecon Valley by global investors — has also gained momentum in the past five years, thanks to Start - Up Chile, a government - backed program launched in 2010.

Manley contends the explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

The Tory - blue booty was included in a lengthy speech from the throne Wednesday by Gov. Gen. David Johnston that spent almost as much time congratulating the Harper government on past achievements as laying out future priorities.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

And yet, as Reynolds points out, the Conservative - Liberal coalition government actually increased spending in real - dollar terms by 5.3 % in the past year.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

«It's a tactic that's been used in the past by other Liberal governments.»

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's metals tariffs had undermined European support.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

This past week, Trump used his official government Twitter account to criticize Nordstrom after the retailer said it had dropped a line of clothing and accessories sold by his daughter Ivanka.

A woman walks past the headquarters of «Zaman» newspaper, after being closed by the government in Istanbul, Thursday, July 28, 2016.

The Chinese government says that GDP growth there has slowed to 6.9 % in 2015, and that it will grow by 6.8 % next year after averaging more than 10 % for the past decade.

«Since the securities regulator is still tightening up such activities, the stock market will continue to be very volatile despite the high - profile rescue package launched by the government in the past few weeks,» they added.

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

In the past, the government has also committed to reducing the absolute level of government debt by $ 3 billion annually once the deficit is eliminated.

The money is being provided by other governments (mainly the German Treasury, cutting back its domestic spending) into a kind of escrow account for the Greek government to pay foreign bondholders who bought up these securities at plunging prices over the past few weeks.

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - Public operating spending by BC's provincial government has decreased over the past 20 years.

«The government has aggressively tackled its direct operating debt (or «credit card» debt), reducing it by almost 80 per cent over the past 10 years.

Eramet, which is 25.6 per cent controlled by an investment arm of the French government, has apparently been invigorated over the past 18 months by the appointment of a new chief executive, Christel Bores, and by the material recovery of markets for its major products, manganese and nickel.

Crippling price inflation that has been intentionally under reported by government statistics will be a thing of the past.

The future of the Parliamentary Budget Office will be determined, in part, by its past success and, in part, by the desire of the Government to «de-claw» the Office.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

This reduced government revenues by about $ 14 - 15 billion annually or roughly $ 110 billion over the past nine years.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

The Yen has grown in value over the past few months because other large currencies are being demolished by their own governments.

Since risk spreads for most borrowers have also declined this means that overall borrowing costs for rated borrowers, corporate and most governments, are low by the standards of the past few decades.

Unilateral symbolic action by the Federal government has not affected change in China in the past, and a similar course action by the government of Ontario is likely to produce a similar disappointing result.

Public Eye has been supported for the past two years by a small group of readers who have made monthly $ 10 contributions to keep me filing freedom of information requests, poring over government reports and holding politicians of all stripes to account.

While the GVBOT applauds the government for its focus on this area, the omission of other priorities around human capital articulated by GVBOT in the past is regrettable.

Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.

In response to this past weekend's announcement by Kinder Morgan that it is suspending non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion until May 31, and the possibility the project could be abandoned after that date, Premier Brian Pallister is calling on the government of British Columbia to abandon its opposition to the project and for the Government of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to cgovernment of British Columbia to abandon its opposition to the project and for the Government of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to cGovernment of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to completion.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

The stock of government debt to GDP (which effectively measures the extent of accumulated past deficits) is exceptionally low by international standards.