Sentences with phrase «end of the last government»

But these very high numbers for the end of the last government's term of office are why under the last government, we saw a worrying collapse in public confidence in our ability to control inward migration.

John Major must be happy - Gordon Brown is now getting worse personal ratings than he did towards the end of the last government.

That piece of pro-copyright legislation, which made it possible to cut off the internet access of «pirates», was fast - tracked in the so - called washup period at the tail - end of the last government.

Not exact matches

And this March, as my colleague Alex Paladino mentioned, the spending bill President Trump signed to fund the government through the end of September originally had an internet sales tax attached to it, before it was pulled out at the last minute.

Tighter regulation on bond markets has crimped appetite for bonds in the region, he said, noting that subscriptions for three government bonds issued at the end of last year lagged expectations.

«There is no more safe haven with regard to the federal government and marijuana, but it's also the beginning of the story and not the end,» said Kevin Sabet, president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who was among several anti-marijuana advocates who met with Sessions last month.

Because the money boosting the state sector must be used by the middle of this year, according to the government, Williams says the short - term kick to the economy should last through the end of the year.

Obviously antsy at how long it's been since the last government bailout, the United States Congress is denying the perfectly sensible proposal made by its country's Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery in an attempt to help stop its gush of red ink.

«I still believe that the Cuban government, someone within the Cuban government, can bring this to an end,» Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month.

That judgment, about whether the government should get involved in the entire P2P throttling debate, will likely be made by the end of the summer, but Bell certainly could not have helped its assertion that congestion is a huge problem by opening its own (non-P2P) video download store last week.

India's stock market has been jittery the last few weeks, on news that the BJP would lead a minority government at the end of the three - month long national elections.

Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government's decision to legislate a contract and put an end to their collective bargaining process.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

According to Freddie Mac, the government - controlled buyer and seller of mortgage securities, the average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage dropped to 3.48 % last week (ending July 1, 2016).

Many of the first - time NDP voters who wanted desperately to end four decades of Tory rule last time have skedaddled; in one recent poll, 40 per cent of admitted NDP voters agreed Notley's government «is out of touch with what Albertans want.»

Last week, the World Food Programme warned that emergency food aid for 7.8 million Ethiopians would run out by the end of June - a claim the government denies.

Since some of our writers have been taking up the great theme related to the «end of history,» it might be foolish to think that any of the details in the news over the past few weeks — the government shutdown, the debt crisis crisis, the Obama care website — have any lasting impact.

He rose on that last day to call for unanimous consent in hopes that that too might help the document be accepted, and he said, «In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe further that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the people shall have become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of Government, being incapable of any other.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

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.

As part of measures to address the on - going power supply challenges, Finance Minister Seth Terkper told Parliament last week when he presented the 2016 budget that government was working on the 220MW Kpone Thermal Power Project which he said is on course and expected to be commissioned for operations before the end of the year.

Miliband was in cabinet at the end of the last Labour government, but he said that government did not take action against the press «because they were feared the consequences».

«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy by the end of the parliament.

According to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, almost 300 local governments in New York ended one of the last two fiscal years with a deficit, 100 lack enough cash to pay even three - quarters of their liabilities, and 27 have depleted their rainy - day reserves.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

House leaders predicted last week that the spending plan could come as early as Monday, though there were signs the timeline might slip again even though the stopgap government funding measure passed on Dec. 11 runs out at the end of Wednesday.

In this post Meg Russell argues that whilst last Monday's vote was certainly unusual, the most significant change is the wider political context: that it is a Conservative government on the receiving end of repeated defeats in the Lords.

As I found in Project Red Alert, my research on Labour's prospects at the end of last year, a third of those who would consider voting Labour say the party hasn't yet learned the right lessons from what went wrong during its time in government, and can not yet be trusted to run the country again.

New York's state Legislature chose not pass the urgent pleas of local governments including Rockland County, the City of Long Beach, Suffolk and Nassau counties, Buffalo and Newburgh during the 2012 legislative session that ended last week.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Evoking memories of the end of the John Major's administration, ministers are pulling up the shutters, with the coalition government spending a third less time on legislation than the last Labour government.

«This is entirely the right of the prime minister and I'm sorry that the expertise which I have put at the government's disposal over the last six years has now come to an end,» he said.

He however assured the people of government efforts to bring a lasting end to their plight.

It sounds like an idea that would warm a conservative Republican's heart: Kill funding of a regional environmental cleanup that has lasted seven years and cost the federal government more than $ 2 billion, with no end in sight.

I would say though that we are currently in the position we were in at the end of the last Labour government - deeply in the red because of government over-spending and with a cupboard that is bare.

In September last year the Government consulted on proposals to end the current requirement that all new religious schools leave at least half of their places open to local children irrespective of religion or belief.

The Local Government Association (LGA) maintained just one per cent of council tax arrears cases ended in court or had bailiffs seizing goods and bankruptcy orders were a last resort.

Let me deal with the Government's record, not because we want to oppose for the sake of opposition — indeed we have supported several government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of Government's record, not because we want to oppose for the sake of opposition — indeed we have supported several government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of government have got the wrong end of the stick.

High January 26th: End of the recession - But this good economic news, anticipated for so long by those in government, was dampened by the sad fact economic growth in the last quarter of 2009 only amounted to 0.1 % of GDP.

After three long years of policy development, consultations and legislative debate, the end was at last in sight for the government's proposed Electricity Market Reform.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

The letter, which could win the Sir Humphrey Appleby award for lack of clarity, explains that the government is not paying councils the last instalment of the school standards grant before it is abolished at the end of the financial year and the money merged into school's mainstream funding.

Field has been an enemy of Brown's ever since Brown in practice ended Field's career as welfare reform minister in the early days of the Blair government by vetoing his plans for benefit reform and Field launched a highly personal attack on Brown last year.

During the period between the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and the end of the last Labour government in 2010, the West Lothian Question had few practical ramifications.

After the FBI's release of government documents last week that were part of the Clinton email probe, she told ABC's David Muir that she takes «classification very seriously» and sees the release of those documents as the end of «a very difficult period.»

Balls aimed himself at the government yesterday after it emerged that the economy had shrunk at the end of last year.

However, in the last seven years alone under this NDC government, Ghana's total debt has ballooned from GH cents 9.5 billion to GH cents 100 billion by the end of 2015 and GH cents 105 billion in May 2016!

While the coverage of the march ended up being marred by the violence, it doesn't mean they didn't damage the government, in fact the two student protests last year that ended in violence also hit government support — though the poll effect is probably more from the reminder of unpopular policies and opposition to them, than the violence itself!

Strathclyde's resignation marks the end of the Tories» last continuous link with the government of Margaret Thatcher.

The Government's Brexit legislation passed its first major hurdle in the Commons last night after MPs overwhelmingly backed triggering Article 50 by the end of March.