Sentences with phrase «government bulldozing»

Paradise was created, we find out in later stories, when the government bulldozed the homes of Darling and her friends, most likely in Operation Murambatsvina, which in Shona means, «Getting rid of the filth.»

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The government recently bulldozed one large church in the city of Wenzhou.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

The government has been bulldozing the hovels and trucking people further out from the city, claiming, among other things, that no sanitary facilities are present nor providable.

«In some of our great fruit growing areas, orchards are being bulldozed and we have a government which is making a difficult situation worse, not better,» he said.

The lesson for government is not, however, to simply bulldoze projects through and pay locals to shut them up.

At 37, Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke changed the political calculations of the then rustic Osun to bulldoze his way into the Government House having boxed his rival in the then Social Democratic Party, Oladosu Oladapo, into a political corner that later sent the then Ibadan - based legal practitioner into political oblivion.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, criticises the government for «bulldozing» through badly thought out policies despite advice from experts.

The Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee explains the appalling process by which this government has bulldozed its astonishing Lobbying Bill through the British parliament.

Quite apart from the fact that it is weird that it had to take Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, a non-employee of government, and not Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, to tell Ghanaians that Dr. Bawumia is not in hospital but in a flat, the claim also bulldozes down the entirety of the damage control that the government has been pulling so far.

Chris Pincher Conservative MP and member of the energy and climate change select committee Policing policy Westminster recently witnessed a huge demonstration when thousands of police officers protested against the arbitrary changes the government is bulldozing through on their working conditions.

«With breathtaking arrogance the government is riding roughshod over the public and trying to bulldoze through changes that will be the end of the NHS as we know it.»

Instead the Government has bulldozed it through the Commons.

Lord Mandelson, who was one of the architects of New Labour, said many people were feeling bulldozed into a Brexit they did not vote for, adding that the government's pursuit of leaving the EU at any cost must be challenged.

The message here, while being a bit heavy handed, needs to be said, and the film does a very good job of delving into the consequences of a political system that simply bulldozes people for government funding, not caring what happens to those they trample.

The law was very clear: while these sorts of things were not technically legal, the government was not allowed to bulldoze homes.