Sentences with phrase «control over the province»

This week, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, indicated that Britain could hand control over the province of Basra to Iraqi forces in spring next year, while the Prime Minister called for other Nato members to help more in Afghanistan.

Manitoba is governed by the Securities Commission (does that mean CREA has no control over the province at all?).

Not exact matches

More significant in the bitter dispute over control of Woodside are plans for the two Timor Sea provinces.

After another disastrous conference in 1918, Ottawa began to acknowledge that the western provinces might benefit from having some control over their resources.

In a federation that gives the provinces control over natural resources, Eastern Canada has to think strategically about how it addresses its growing wealth gap with its neighbours.

His solution amounts to taking greater control over billions Ottawa transfers to the provinces for skills training.

Over 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten yeOver 95 per cent of Canada's infrastructure is controlled by the provinces, territories and municipalities, for which the federal government already allocates significant amounts of funding through its New Building Canada Plan; a $ 53 billion plan spread over ten yeover ten years.

As they prepare for 2015, participants will try to enlist other provinces, notably Quebec and Alberta, that so far have resisted relinquishing control over capital markets within their jurisdictions.

She notes that B.C. wants control over more bitumen coming into the province via pipeline on environmental safety grounds, but is OK with current levels already coming in.

Any British Columbian attempts to take Alberta to court over this province's oil control bill will ultimately fail, the government says.

In Anatomy of an Illness Norman Cousins has recorded the story of a patient's struggle to become a part of the healing process by assuming control over phases of diet and medication normally the province of the physician alone.

Wasit province, a central Shia - dominated region of the country, was today handed over from US to local control.

In a recent report, the defence select committee said handing over control of Basra, which is the most populous and economically important of the four provinces under British control, was a «key test» in the progress towards Iraqi self - reliance.

In June, the UK began handing over responsibility for security in the first of the four southern provinces it controls, al Muthanna, to the Iraqi services.

Mr Blair said British troops had already handed over control of two Iraqi provinces to domestic security forces in the south «because the job was done», and stressed it was «important we withdraw from some areas where Iraqis are ready to take control».

Control over a second province, Maysan, is expected to be handed over soon.

As the Chinese government gradually relaxed its control over urban migration — by loosening the restrictions of the 1958 Hukou System, which afforded social benefits only to those who could prove identification from the local province — more and more individuals have taken advantage of new economic opportunities by migrating to cities.

Since 2005, courts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Oregon have dismissed such cases on motion, holding that control over school funding is the sole province of the elected branches of government.

Rather than a politics that seeks to exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.

Something remarkable is unfolding on the Web and in state - controlled media in China as citizens aggressively challenge officials over the collapse of so many schools in the powerful earthquake that shook the mountains of Sichuan province.

Rather than explaining the tax better all over the province, correcting Vander Zalm's math, reducing it to 10 per cent right away, or reminding younger voters that Vander Zalm was the author of the property purchase tax that added thousands of dollars to the purchase price of their homes, the government lost control of the message and distanced itself from the debate as if the HST were an alcoholic uncle that no - one wanted to acknowledge because he was drunk at family gatherings.

Neither of his rivals, Jim Prentice nor Thomas Lukaszuk, has refuted the premise of his argument that the province needs more control over the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to give employers more access to cheap, disposable workers.

The uniqueness of the position of the barrister and solicitor in the community may well have led the province to select self - administration as the mode for administrative control over the supply of legal services throughout the community.

... the Law Society has total control over who can practise law in the province, over the conditions or requirements placed upon those who practise and, perhaps most importantly, over the means of enforcing respect for those conditions or requirements.

They wrote: «The provisions of the AHR Act concerning controlled activities, namely those involving assistance for human reproduction and related research activities, do not fall under the criminal law power, but belong to the jurisdiction of the provinces over hospitals, civil rights and local matters.»