Sentences with phrase «first time a government»

This isn't the first time the government has tried this clever strategy, but the effort has never reached across so many states at once.

Officials said 55 percent of the nearly 1.5 million customers have power, marking the first time the government has provided that statistic since Maria hit on Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph.

This means that for the first time our government comes perilously close to departing from its original form and nature.

This is not the first time the government has been accused of deliberately covering up its financial weaknesses.

The starting point is our National Infrastructure Plan - the first time any government has ever drawn together an audit of what we have, what needs to change and what the timescale should be.

Clarke spoke out as MPs debated for the first time the Government's Article 50 bill to trigger Brexit.

The historic result was the first time the Government had beaten an opposition party in a by - election in 35 years.

The Fund will be the first time government's social policy intervention to focus on developing residents of Zongo communities.

This is not the first time government has offered land and funding in exchange for university development.

This is not the first time a government has made such a proposal.

It marked the first time a government advisory body, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), had recommended withholding information from a scientific paper, he added.

It is not the first time a government agency has intervened in the trust's affairs in the past year.

Though there have been other student loan scams, this is the first time a government official was charged in such an ordeal.

«It will be the first time government leaders have the chance to talk not only about the importance of the Paris agreement and all it can achieve but the importance of carbon pricing,» he said.

Incredibly, this appears to be the first time the government has really tried to tackle this crucial issue nationwide.

For the first time the Government has published full details of the new requirement for employers...

The South Korean government has banned its own officials from holding and trading cryptocurrency, which is considered to be «the first time the government has formulated a virtual currency ban for all public officials,» Maeil Business reported on March 1.

The personnel department requested that they [civil servants] refrain from holding and trading virtual currency even if there is no job relevance... This is the first time the government has formulated a virtual currency ban for all public officials.

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The A-10 is returning to Afghanistan for the first time since 2012, with the squadron of 12 aircraft to operate from Kandahar air base in the south, the heartland of the militants fighting to oust the Western - backed government and drive out foreign forces.

I WAS at a function the other night where the Treasurer, Peter Costello, sang the praises of the Howard Government in bringing in a trade surplus for the first time since John Gorton was Prime Minister.

Zuckerberg, who faced five hours of questioning from a rare US Senate joint committee hearing, had reportedly hired external consultants to prepare him for his first time explaining Facebook's operations to the US government in public.

He added that it was the first known time that pro-Syrian government forces had fired at coalition forces in the area.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

In the old days, for example, the government responded to high prices by legislating tax breaks for first - time home buyers.

The Greek government seems ready to tap the bond markets again as early as next week, a source close to the situation told CNBC on Tuesday, which would mark the first time since 2014 that the country has borrowed from the capital markets.

The federal government's disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov is an embarrassingly perfect example of basically everything you shouldn't do when going live with a website for the first time.

It's unclear how well the accord and government reforms will be implemented because it's not the first time promises have been made and Bangladesh's reputation for corruption is poor.

Anticipation of faster growth under a united Republican government has driven much of the recent gains, which a number of market watchers expect will soon put the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 20,000 for the first time in history.

If the launch is successful, it will be the first time a private company, not a government agency, has accomplished such a feat.

In a story yesterday, the news agency reported that US oil imports form Africa were greater than those from the Middles East in 2006, for the first time in 21 years, according to government data.

It was also the first time Obama addressed Mitt Romney's controversial comments about 47 % of the population being dependent on the government and would vote for Obama as a result.

This won't be the first time Ewing and Keep have returned to South Korea, traveling to the peninsula in 2006 and 2015, respectively, thanks to the Revisit Korea Program organized by the South Korean government to invite Korean War veterans back to the country.

President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the nation's opioid epidemic a public health emergency, the first time since 2010 that the federal government has designated such an emergency nationwide.

In March, federal prosecutors charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding a 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian spies for cyber crimes.

Back when the government first tracked workers» hours in 1890, full - time manufacturing employees worked a backbreaking 100 hours each week.

It's not the first time Huawei has clashed with the U.S. government.

TheWA government's unexplained rejection of Cazaly Resources Ltd's claim to the Shovelanna iron ore deposit in the Pilbara could deflect investment from the state's resources sector and, for the first time, raised the real spectre of sovereign risk.

Apple has received more than four times as many national - security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday.

China may witness its first local government bond defaults, although the timing was uncertain, Fitch Ratings said in a press release issued on Sunday, amid persistent concerns over high debt levels in the world second largest economy.

Flaherty saw this relationship between GDP growth and government revenues first - hand when he was Ontario's Finance Minister, during a time when the government's budgetary position eroded due to slower - than - anticipated economic growth.

This is not the first time that government has tried to limit executive compensation.

Economic Action Plan 2014 sticks to the principles that we adopted when I rose to deliver our Government's first budget in 2006 during good times.

And, for the first time ever, the federal government made up the biggest share of spending (29 %) thanks to Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid.

In 2012, an internationally recognized Somali government ruled from the city for the first time in nearly twenty years.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

Fedosejevs was part of a group of fusion researchers who requested $ 21 million from the Alberta government in 2009 to establish an Alberta - Canada Fusion Energy Institute, but their timing was poor, given that the province was about to announce its first budget deficit in 15 years.

«As a result, the government sector will detract from economic growth for the first time since the late 1990s.»

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

The indictment marks the first time that the U.S. government has brought charges against foreign officials for cyber spying.

At the same time, First Nations across the province were gaining unprecedented economic clout as the B.C. government began sharing resource revenues.