Sentences with phrase «government abandoned its plans»

Denmark's government abandoned plans to build five offshore wind power farms Friday amid fears the electricity produced there would become too expensive for Danish consumers.

Not exact matches

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

Plans which could have seen churches inspected by Ofsted have been abandoned by the government.

But while the government may not have a plan in place, that doesn't mean the children will be abandoned entirely, said Compassion spokesperson Becca Bishop.

UK: Government drops minimum unit pricing The UK Coalition Government has officially abandoned plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in England and Wales.

The recording of the 2016 teleconference also reveals the NSW Government has been actively considering plans, in discussion with irrigators, to abandon the Basin Plan altogether, and has sought legal advice about doing so.

The Plan continues as a manifesto of good ideas and community and smallholder needs even though the federal government has abandoned the idea of a national food pPlan continues as a manifesto of good ideas and community and smallholder needs even though the federal government has abandoned the idea of a national food planplan.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg announced today that the government will abandon its plans for reform of the House of Lords.

More than 200 UK jobs have been saved after a campaign by the Public and Commercial Services union forced government contractor Hewlett Packard to abandon plans to offshore work to India.

He said the figures showed the British government was «on track in reducing the deficit» and added, referring to the situation in Greece: «On a day like this, in a week like this, for the other side to be saying we abandon our credible deficit reduction plan shows how out of touch they are with what is going on in the world today.»

The Labour government attempted to undergo a re-valuation in 2007, but abandoned its plans until after the 2010 election.

However, whilst acknowledging that the Government «have to do more to get our economy moving and get jobs for our people», the Prime Minister remained adamant that «we must not abandon the plan that has given us record low interest rates.»

In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schools.

The chancellor is to abandon the practise, in place since Gordon Brown started at the Treasury in 1997, of producing the mid-year comprehensive reports on the government's spending plans, and instead will issue a slimmed - down statement.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today that plans to reform the House of Lords will be abandoned after the Conservatives had «broken the contract» between the coalition government partners.

He was seen as imperious and intolerant by backbench opponents concerned at the threat to local postal services («he seemed to have lost touch» one commented after a meeting), and the plan was abandoned by the Cabinet as unlikely to pass the House of Commons, as the Major government's majority had dropped to 14 by then.

They would have recognized that their roads, which you had plans for, have been abandoned without any hopes of getting back to them by this government.

And the Lib Dems have swung away from their traditionally «liberal» policy on immigration - instead they've backed the Government's toxic immigration bill, abandoned support for an amnesty for illegal immigrants and laid out plans for a # 1,000 bond for those visiting from «high - risk» countries.

The government claimed these developments forced it to abandon plans to make police authorities directly elected in the policing and crime bill, which was published last week.

With public borrowing planned to reach 57 per cent of GDP and David Cameron abandoning his party's link with the government's total spending plans, politics had just got interesting again.

Similarly, a guy I met at a Buffalo Bills bar turned me on to government emails that led to a story I did in 2014 about a secret, abandoned plan to remove truck traffic from the Peace Bridge.

The Red Cross was right that the Azure card should be scrapped and the government should abandon any plans to introduce it for social security.»

Despite these challenges, the Minster of Sanitation, Kofi Adda, has however indicated that government has not abandoned strategic plans aimed at making Accra the cleanest city in Africa.

Forecasts revealed sweeping downgrades to UK growth and a sharp rise in Government borrowing, abandoning his predecessor's plan to balance the books by 2020.

NRG initiated and abandoned plans to build at least two new large reactors in the last five years, thanks to falling natural gas prices and uncertainty surrounding U.S. government policy.

Although the Government has abandoned its plans for wholesale privatisation of the Patent Office, it is still deciding whether to contract out the work of the London office to a private firm.

Having seen a strong civil society reaction against such a change that was deemed to run against the principle of constitutionalism, Abe had to abandon the plan, and that is how he then came around to the idea of simply revising the official government interpretation of the constitution to lift the ban on CSD.

The government's plans to compel all schools in England to become academies are being abandoned, in a government climbdown.

The government has offered «support» to groups wanting to set up new VA schools as a compromise after it abandoned plans to scrap the 50 - per - cent cap on faith - based admissions at over-subscribed free schools.

The government has abandoned plans to force all schools to become academies, the government has confirmed.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has had to abandon plans to force all schools to become academies, but Mr Laws says their political protection went back to the early days of the first academies created by Labour governments.

The plan to introduce new baseline tests comes just two years after the government abandoned its last attempt, which ended in disaster.

Plans to force all of England's schools to become academies are being abandoned in a government climbdown.

The TES said in an article on 11th July that the government was struggling to meet its pre-election promise, after being forced to abandon plans to scrap universal free school meals for infants.

Sunday trading The plan to let shops open longer on Sundays was taken to a vote and rejected by Labour, the SNP and some backbench Tory MPs, forcing the government to abandon the plan.

Cable ultimately abandoned the plan once he realized it wouldn't help the government minimize its overall debt.

The departing socialist government have now abandoned the plan, which obviously had many holes in it, deep caverns where the places the oil and energy minister planned to hold the gas.

The Indonesian government should take note and abandon its own plans for new subsidies to expand biofuels plantations in Indonesian forests.»

The Guardian reported in December, 2016, referring to new documents that had come to light, that the Australian government had signed an agreement to make a $ 640,000 grant to Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus Center nine months after plans to establish the Center had been abandoned.

'' The Labor Government has also abandoned its plan to increase the tax - free threshold to ease the burden of the carbon tax.

The government has abandoned its plans to pilot BVT for criminal defence work.

By abandoning its plans for a new Mental Health Act, the government has limited the scope for innovation.

In 1978 China abandoned a planned economy that the government thought could facilitate productive forces and would guarantee fairness.

According to the news, the Australian government is taking a two - pronged approach: pressuring the Solomon Islands to abandon plans -LSB-...]

Governments need to be prepared to change their plans, or even abandon them, particularly when consultations reveal that a measure would have a significant impact on our rights and that the affected peoples do not agree to the measure.

Governments need to be prepared to change their plans, or even abandon them, particularly when consultations reveal that a measure would have a significant impact on the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and that the affected peoples do not agree to the measure.