Sentences with phrase «down under this government»

Then, a question: has income tax gone up or down under this government?

The DWP last week claimed that food poverty has gone down under this government, pointing to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Not exact matches

Unions demand export licences The Rudd Government is under pressure from Australia's two biggest mining unions to reintroduce export licences that could stop Chinese and other foreign interests forcing down export prices.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

Two prominent secure email services have shut down, apparently under pressure from the federal government.

On Sunday, the federal government turned down ETP's request for an easement that will allow it to tunnel under the Missouri River, adjacent to the Standing Rock reservation.

Once the euphoria of their victory ebbs, Republicans will be under pressure to show Americans they are capable of governing after drawing scorn a year ago for shutting down the government in a budget fight.

The government Down Under has made cannabis legal for the ill but regulatory hurdles seem likely to make genuine access difficult.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNN, under consideration to become interim director of the federal government's consumer watchdog after current director Richard Cordray steps down later this month.

House Speaker John Boehner, under fire from conservatives over a looming government shut down, said Friday he will resign from Congress at the end of October.

Australia's biotech industry group AusBiotech was among those cheering Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government in December after it announced a National Innovation and Sciences Agenda (NISA) designed to position Down Under as a leader in biotech and other technologies.

In Ottawa, a nervous government implemented new regulations for insured mortgages in an effort to slow down the Vancouver and Toronto markets — and came under fire from Realtors in places like Saskatoon, where the local real estate association says the new regulations have seriously hurt would - be home buyers.

Companies like Caterpillar earn billions in revenue from Canadian resource developments. Yet Caterpillar is under no compulsion to produce anything in Canada. To the contrary, our governments gave Caterpillar carte blanche to take over and then shut down important productive assets. They will continue to supply our resource projects from outside the country, unless and until we implement a strategy to enhance our capacity to do this important, valuable work ourselves.

Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

Fleming first introduced payday loan legislation in 2007, which provided more protection to borrowers than the current watered - down rules under the Clark government.

Isaac knelt down and began to pray; he strung along, and strung along, about the heathen in distant lands, and about the sister churches, and about the state and the country at large, and about those that's in authority in the government, and all the usual programme, you know, till everybody had got tired and gone to thinking about something else, and then, all of a sudden, when nobody was noticing, he outs with a match and rakes it on the under side of his leg, and pff!

What's more, Canada recently sent for 100 copies; and the Australian government has approached us about producing a Down Under version.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

There is already a precedent of the Scottish Government backing down under this kind of pressure — in 2008 it surrendered to the Catholic Church's opposition to the HPV vaccine for teenage girls.

«The government said we have got a plan, it will work, we will secure recovery, we will get unemployment down, we will get the deficit under control and on every one of those measures it has failed,» Mr Balls told the Observer newspaper.

The Albany Times - Union revealed that Percoco was trying to marshal support for the administration while it was under federal investigation for prematurely shutting down the Moreland Commission, and was encouraging people contacted «to communicate with him through private email messages rather than through their government email accounts.»

He added: «Under the next Labour government the big six firms will not be allowed to continue to act like a cartel that prevents new market entrants or drive down standards.

Senior government sources played down the significance of his departure, claiming his position had been under threat over his recent habit of engaging in vehement Twitter spats.

«My understanding is that if we can commit to staying under the two percent growth rate in state government, which I think is perfectly reasonable and which we have mandated local governments do with the property tax cap, if we do that we cut the $ 4.4 billion deficit down to $ 1.7 billion,» Jacobs said.

Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni dismissed a charge of «extortion under color of official right» based on allegations that the former Cuomo confidante used his government post to shake down $ 35,000 in bribes from two execs at the Syracuse - based development company.

But David Cameron is breaking his promises to clean up the lobbying industry because, under his Government's watered - down Bill: · only a fraction of lobbyists would have to register and this will not include the in house lobbyists used by the big energy firms.

Under this scenario the Lib Dems would effectively drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement, leaving government after the 2014 Budget and giving them enough time to position themselves midway between the Tories and Labour.

In recent weeks, the SNP has been bogged down in the sort of scandals that, under normal circumstances, have the power to do real damage yet the party of Scottish Government continues to ride high, seemingly impervious to their effect.

As the negotiations over the state budget appear to be winding down, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's counsel's office met privately on Friday afternoon with several good - government advocates to discuss new outside income disclosure requirements under consideration.

Left - wing is big government and right - wing is small government, because in our society the government is more or less the only institution under some democratic control, so if power is transferred from a democratically controlled government to uncontrolled corporations, power becomes more top - down; if power resides with a democratically controlled government, power becomes more egalitarian.

«Also, the international community, especially the United States, United Kingdom and the United Nations should caution the President against actions capable of bringing down institutions of government under the guise of fighting corruption.»

He stood down as an MP in 2004 to become EU Trade Commissioner, before returning to the government under Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, First Secretary of State, and Lord President of the Council.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

And under a recent consultation document EDF would only have to pay around a fifth of the eventual cost for dealing with waste, leaving the government and the taxpayer facing the liability after the power station shuts down.

The group told the leaders of the Niger Delta region, under the Chief Edwin Clark - led Pan Niger Delta Forum, that they could not help but bring down some oil facilities in the region because the Federal Government had allegedly refused to honour the ceasefire terms they both entered.

As Gamei (Gas), we see a consent of government to the former President's demand as a fall of the first domino which will knock down other dominoes to the detriment of the stability and growth of the Ga nation whichis already under serious threat.

Wilkie never acted to bring down the government, but Labor's numbers again came under pressure thanks to the problems of backbench Labor MP for Dobell, Craig Thomson.

The impression from the papers today and over the last few days is that Ed Miliband is under attack from the Blairite «right» of the Labour Party: David Miliband's leaked victory speech (what might have been, if he'd won), the Telegraph files showing Ed Miliband and Ed Balls plotted to bring Blair's government down, the serialisation of a new booking suggesting the Milibands» relationship has broken down...

Mr. Fuseini also called for investigations into the sale of lands under successive governments, saying «I will advise my brother the Minister of Defence to tone down and use cool heads to manage the problem he is talking about.

Without the damaging watering down of policies caused by a coalition Kwasi argues the case for a better Britain under a Conservative government.

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers» money to bail out private rail companies — a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has «broken down» under the strain of Brexit.

«On a daily basis, the nation is inundated by news of gruesome killings and unrelenting violence across the country, with Nigerians being hacked down or abducted by marauders and insurgents under the... All Progressives Congress - led government, which has failed to take decisive steps to stem the ugly tide.

It is about creating higher - paying jobs in this country, which is why our policy on apprenticeships, for as many as 100,000 more apprenticeships, is so important; it is about fairer decision tax, [repealing] the bedroom tax; and it is also about cracking down on some of those vested interests — the train companies who are taking people for a ride under this government.»

She was health secretary under Tony Blair but left government when Brown became prime minister in 2007 and is due to stand down as an MP at the next election.

Recall that members of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, in the institution had earlier in November shut down the university in protest, calling on the Federal Government to probe the activities of the institution under the leadership of Oyewole.

Under the terms of the coalition deal published on Wednesday, Lib Dem MPs can abstain in any Commons votes on nuclear power but will not be able to bring down the government over it in a confidence vote.

The story referred to a Bill introduced into the Commons by Lib Dem MP Andrew George to water down government legislation (known in Whitehall as the under - occupancy penalty) which had represented a collective decision of the coalition government.