Sentences with phrase «government at a time of crisis»

The one positive «brand» quality that has a resonance beyond Coalition supporters is the proposition that «the Lib Dems did the responsible thing by entering government at a time of crisis».

Not exact matches

• The existence of a shadow government of unelected officials, acting independently or at times in cooperation with elected officials, presents the United States with a serious constitutional crisis:

«At a time of a crisis of teacher recruitment and retention, the Government must now take seriously the issues raised by supply teachers, who are the backbone of the schools system.

Their intervention, in 2013, came at a time when both the government and the National Constituent Assembly faced respective crises of confidence.

«At a time when New York government is in crisis thanks to a series of high - profile corruption scandals, the Board has opted to perpetuate its deeply flawed rule that enables frequent and harmful circumvention of the law,» said Elizabeth S. Saylor, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLAt a time when New York government is in crisis thanks to a series of high - profile corruption scandals, the Board has opted to perpetuate its deeply flawed rule that enables frequent and harmful circumvention of the law,» said Elizabeth S. Saylor, a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLat Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP.

Invoking the National Interest is more commonly associated with times of war or major crisis, and the consequent need for the government to rally all the forces and interests within a country behind it: UK Prime Minister Theresa May used it at least twice in her Lancaster House speech of 17 January.

Syracuse, NY - In a State of the City Address that included the word «crisis» at least six times, Mayor Stephanie Miner laid out her vision tonight for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective during her second year in office.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «At a time of a crisis of teacher recruitment and retention, the Government must now take seriously the issues raised by supply teachers, who are the backbone of the schools system.

At 8:15 a.m., CityLaw Breakfast panelists discuss the power of government in times of crisis and the roles NYC lawyers played in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, 185 West Broadway, Manhattan.

I was a late convert to the idea that we needed to do something quickly... I was persuaded in the few days surrounding the change of government because that's when the sovereign debt crisis was at its peak... Certainly under the conditions under which we embarked on the election there was no immediate sense of crisis that crisis hit us around election time and we had to respond to it... I changed my mind in the days shortly after the election because that was when the sovereign debt crisis his Europe.

Now the president has to sell his budget at a time when many lawmakers are worried about the effectiveness of the government's expensive efforts to stem the economic and financial crises so far.

Part of his New Year's message invoked the spirit of the Blitz, suggesting that he yearns to emerge as a Churchillian figure who can lead a government of national unity at this time of economic crisis.

«At a time of a crisis in teacher supply and a buoyant graduate recruitment market, the Government needs to do much more to make teaching an attractive profession.

«It is extraordinary that at a time when the shortage of primary school places amounts to nothing short of a national crisis that the government is persisting with the folly of its free school policy,» she said.

Pressed several times on whether the NAO was in fact the latest sign of a crisis, Mr Gibb instead referred to problems created by «the challenge of a strong economy», with high demand for graduates, and described government initiatives like bursaries aimed at attracting people to the classroom.

«Ghosts,» she says, explaining that the island evokes — or rather is haunted by — the spirits of a generation of men and women: artists, thinkers, people of color, the affluent, the middle class, the ignored, the displaced, those let down by their government, those who caught the disease too early, those who didn't realize they had caught it at all, those who thought they would never catch it but who did, all of those who were lost to the dark times when she first came to New York City in the early 1990s, at the height of the AIDS crisis.

Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.

The only solace we can get from the annual visits of super typhoons exactly at the time of the Summit of the Conference of Parties is the hope that our tragedies will somehow move governments into more ambitious, more just and fairly shared global actions to confront the climate crisis.

In The New York Times Magazine's 2008 Earth Day issue, Michael Pollan argued that climate change was at bottom a crisis of lifestyle and personal character — «the sum of countless little everyday choices» — and suggested that individual actions, such as planting backyard gardens, might ultimately be more important than government action to repair the environment.