Sentences with phrase «from powerful government»

China must do the hard work of shifting wealth from powerful government officials and managers of state - owned enterprises to Chinese households, with consumer spending carrying more of the economic burden.

Not exact matches

He has been forced to operate like a prime minister in a coalition government, pleading for consensus from powerful ministers — such as combustible news head Matt Winkler and terminal boss Tom Secunda — who control resources and decide whether they'll allow anything to get done.

The U.S. government - funded President's Malaria Initiative has been a powerful force in the past decade, and monies for that rose above # 600 million in 2016 from $ 30 million in 2006.

The insights that follow feature some powerful pairings: business partners, government leaders, heads of foundations, mentors, mentees, friends, and something greater — all share a willingness to learn from one another and grow wise together.

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

Under pressure from powerful special interests who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the God - given definitions of marriage and the family.

Founded by three powerful archbishops in 1933, the Legion offered ethical consultation to Hollywood and eschewed cooperation in legal censorship with government agencies, but its power came from its influence on the faithful and from its willingness to encourage boycotts whenever Hollywood ignored its ethical appeals.

The greatest threat to freedom of thought and conscience comes from a government [or group of people] that becomes «all powerful» and at the same time, one that is NOT «of the people, by the people, and for the people.»

I have been strongly opposed to this from the beginning, but as long as it was economically profitable, and those who suffered were not politically powerful, it was extended by the World Trade Organization and other international economic organizations working together with huge agricultural corporations and the American government.

Simply put, the Federalists believed government should protect the public from the worst inclinations of the powerful, while the anti-Federalists felt government existed solely to protect the powerful from infringement.

The structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is intentionally or unintentionally revealing..

Still, it is worth remembering that there exists in America a very powerful form of command economy: a large and powerful sector of American business (by some estimates up to one - fifth) is effectively removed from the strictures of the market economy since it does most of its business «on command» with the military branches of the American government.

This pseudo-context, in other words, is either deliberately concocted by image - mongers and wordsmiths in the employ of an interested party, like a government or powerful corporation, or it is insouciantly dictated by cinematic cliche taken from fiction.

They are quotes from prominent, politically powerful Americans who would establish religious control over America's government.

Let the all - knowing and all - powerful government do it all so we can sit here and devolve from caring nation to one that expects its butt to be wiped.

OMG, this nitwit takes money from the billionaire Koch Brothers, who want to take over the federal government, so they can get more rich, and more powerful, while running around using Christianity as their sounding board.

The violence that marred last week's protest shouldn't detract from the powerful message students sent to the government.

Two of the most powerful women in New York state government — Secretary of the Governor Melissa DeRosa and LG Kathy Hochul — unveiled Cuomo's 30 - point plan to address issues ranging from child care and equal pay to contraception coverage and maternal depression.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

Edward Walsh, the former politically powerful Suffolk County Conservative Party leader, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison following his conviction on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

«Cuomo will do anything to distract from his real record on women's rights, which is one of protecting and promoting powerful serial harassers in state government who were allowed to repeatedly prey on women,» Proud said.

As attorney general, Eric will continue Andrew Cuomo's aggressive but fair tradition of standing up to powerful interests so that everyone in New York State has equal justice and protection from their government.»

Prosecutors say the 74 - year - old Silver earned $ 4 million illegally in fees for his work on behalf of a cancer researcher and real estate developers who stood to benefit from his clout as one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state government.

Two of the most powerful women in New York state government unveiled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 30 - point plan to address issues ranging from child care and equal pay to contraception coverage and maternal depression.

If it really is the case that the European Research Group will be a «very powerful factor» in that vote, then UK citizens have the right to know its full membership, where all of its money comes from — and its full involvement with ministers in Britain's current and previous governments.

Fallout from Hurricane Irma is reaching the foundation of Florida's government as the powerful Constitution Revision Commission considers extending key deadlines.

Governments have suffered dearly from these reckless appointments usually pushed on their leaders by powerful hands in our parties.

Having extracted something from the government he moved on to the «very powerful case» made by the Federation of Small Businesses, whose bill he eventually adopted.

The endorsement from Flanagan, R - Long Island, is significant because he is the most powerful Republican in state government and he represents a region with the most influence in selecting a GOP candidate for governor.

These were created by the Local Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Government Act 2000 at a time when Tony Blair and those around him hoped to centralise local government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from government decision - making in elected mayors, strong leaders and cabinets, and powerful chief officers who they could deal with from Whitehall.

Philip Hammond will be one of the most powerful members of a Cameron government: «Gordon Brown downgraded the job of Chief Secretary and removed from his Cabinet colleagues their right to be involved in the overall spending decisions of government.

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

David Davis has been ordered to appear before a powerful committee of MPs as he came under fire from senior Tories over the Government's publication of the Brexit impact papers.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

He had risen from poverty to become the highest - ranking Latino in New York State government — and, briefly and under bizarre circumstances, the third-most powerful man in the state — but only after single - handedly bringing the Senate to a standstill and making Albany a national laughingstock in the process.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor.

The foundation was required by the State Department to disclose its donations from foreign governments that had not previously written checks or those that «materially» increased their gifts once she assumed her role atop the powerful government agency.

Sheldon Silver's resignation from his post as speaker of the Assembly, after 21 years as one of state government's three most powerful men (its oft - criticized modus operandi), left a gaping hole in the center of Albany.

More than 100 years later, attorneys for another powerful Manhattan politician, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that his client's reaping millions of dollars in legal fees from entities with matters before state government was simply business as usual in Albany.

The country has excellent research infrastructure for life science and physical science, a powerful emphasis on collaborative projects and shared facilities, strong government funding of research, and an openness to scientists of all types — and particularly life scientists — from around the world

Governments can also eliminate subsidies of polluting behavior, an approach that is more palatable — except to the often powerful interests that benefit from the subsidies.

From my own experience — I've worked with well over 100 governments around the world — positive inducements are extremely powerful.

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

A glossy «information memorandum» from Shanghai WA Optimum Health Care contains pictures of staff with various local - and central - government figures, including Li Keqiang, the powerful executive vice-premier of the State Council who is tipped to succeed Wen Jiabao as China's next premier.

However, the government will face strong opposition from Brazil's powerful landowning lobby.

The judicial branch of governments may be less subject to pressures from special financial interests than the executive and legislative branches, and the courts are expected to protect the rights of all people, including the less powerful.

I am glad you asked... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] The enthralling documentary «Manda Bala» starts connecting the dots with Jadar Barbalho, a powerful and corrupt politician, who embezzled millions from SUDAM, a government program designed to help the most poverty stricken areas of Brazil.

When a contract killer John Alexander (Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him for the mission.

When a group of famed scientists experience untimely «accidents,» a government task force follows the trail of clues to the Justice League — but is there a more powerful player operating from the shadows?

(There are two major exceptions: a corrosive, explosive scene with Miranda Richardson as the government official's wife that amply proves how powerful she can be when given the part of a human being — as opposed to the monstrous bitch she's asked to flesh out in The Crying Game — and some better - than - average scenes with Leslie Caron that suggest hidden depths in her part missing from the two leads.)