Sentences with phrase «government came to power»

The review was announced shortly after the Coalition Government came to power, on the same day that Sir Peter Gibson's Detainee Inquiry was launched.

Since the Howard Government came to power, Australia's emissions have increased by 19 per cent, a growth rate more than double the average of all other industrialised countries.

In 2013, when the same government came to power, it downgraded the ministry to a division, removing its ability to make high - level decisions.

The decade before May 2014, when the serving government came to power, I likened former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a World Bank official seeking to advance the economic policy of liberalization, which he introduced as finance minister in 1991.

Unfortunately, since the current government came to power (five years ago), there has been considerable political influence regarding what should and should not be included in these reports.

In 2013, when the same government came to power, it downgraded the ministry to a division, removing its ability to make [continue reading...]

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

There has been much discussion between the international community, Thai government, and Myanmar government concerning the repatriation of the 150,000 Burmese refugees in Thailand since President Thein Sein's nominally civilian government came to power in Myanmar in 2011.

The AA programme was probably similar to others that were started in other historically white - run companies since the new SA government came to power.

The Labour government planned to build a third runway at Heathrow, but that was scrapped when the coalition government came to power in 2010.

Since the coalition government came to power, reforms of the health service have been met with widespread criticism and disappointment from those in the medical profession.

Speaking on the eve of the Trades Union Congress's (TUC) first meeting since the coalition government came to power, general secretary Brendan Barber said the budget cuts have only just started to bite.

Acciording to him, «This government came to power at the time civil servants were on strike; the issue that led to the strike was that of the salaries owed to the workers for many months.

On the government's strategic defence and security review, he said that when the Labour government came to power in 1997 and set up a similar review, talks went on for 18 months.

The changes are significant — not least because both ministers have been in post since the coalition government came to power in 2010.

Since that time, Ponta's government came to power in a landslide election, unemployment levels have stayed stagnant, and the Rosia Montana mining project has regained its governmental support.

It was refreshing to hear Dromey admit that the previous Labour should have done more in terms of housing and that the UK's current housing crisis didn't start in May 2010 when the coalition government came to power.

Since the Coalition government came to power, 600,000 more children have been pushed into absolute poverty, Alan Milburn warned.

In fact, crime - related issues came 24th in the list, continuing its diminishing share of MPs» postbags since the coalition government came to power in May 2010.

«This government came to power saying they would get rid of the entire deficit over four years.

Oliver's predecessor Jim Flaherty was also a supporter of a national regulator, and had championed the initiative since the Conservative government came to power in 2006.

As to the latter, to take an extreme case, if a new type of government comes to power, and in the course of it two drunks in a bar have an argument about whether the new government is better than the old and they throw a couple of punches, and that is the only violence, would you say that that means it failed the «no violence» test?

Michael Gove's commitment to put the worst failing schools under new management within 100 days of a Tory government coming to power.

If a government comes to power and promises residents of the provision of jobs I believe it is a good thing that needs backing from all of you because the unemployed youths will all be employed.

Not exact matches

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

An international consortium comprising European renewable energy companies, Australian government agencies, and local contractor Otoc has come together to finance and develop a $ 40 million solar power project at Sandfire Resources» DeGrussa copper mine.

While homeowners can use solar energy to power their houses, governments need to come up with their own solutions to produce clean energy on a massive scale.

As president, Trump also has the power to favor certain companies when it comes to government contracts.

Despite mounting competition, BlackBerry is still a leader when it comes to offering reliable communications solutions for business and government power e-mail users who like the keyboard and take security seriously.

The blog post comes as the Government of Alberta considers the possibility of, well, giving more power and sources to both Calgary and Edmonton.

But industrial capital as well as labor has come under attack in an internecine war of finance capital against industrial capital, and even against the power of governments to retain control over national economies.

It may be a fine Canadian tradition in our perpetual political cycle for opposition parties to promise transparency and openness as they attack a tired government which has tossed both overboard, only to come to power and be accused of the same.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Note that it is not possible to come up with a single number that represents the economy - wide purchasing power of money, but this doesn't stop the government (and some private organisations and individuals) from doing exactly that.

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

For the record, the then Progressive Conservative government's claim of a surplus just before the NDP came to power is nonsense.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the best solution for what is coming is to secede from centralized government and by doing so decentralize the power and make room for the much needed competition of ideas.

Tuesday's blackout reportedly came after «government - run petroleum company CPC Corporation ran into difficulties while replacing the power supply for a control system responsible for sending natural gas to a power plant.»

Unfortunately, when it comes to giving municipalities the power to make elections fairer and more transparent, the B.C. Liberal government knows what to say, but then does whatever it wants.

 Moreover, it's my understanding that, in the eight years of the Harris / Eves government, so many tax cuts had been implemented that the McGuinty government was left with roughly $ 18 billion in reduced annual fiscal capacity compared to when Harris came to power in 1995.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper's government has been blamed for allowing Canada's «strategic partnership» with China to wither after first coming into power in 2006.

Conversations about the power of making arrests, the corruption and complicity of local governments, the holistic care for survivors, the mechanisms of business and labor, the dangers of coming against criminal syndicates — these are not simple ideas or odds to overcome — especially in the NGO community.

In our time, or so the argument runs, liberal democracy has attained such extraordinary power and widespread acceptance that it has come to be thought of as the only legitimate form of government.

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.

Whether the totalitarian governments collapse or change their ways and whether the change comes soon or late, the epidemic of purges and the spreading disaffection of once enthusiastic followers reinforce the old lesson that power in itself is no cure for man's ills, and that human institutions are not equal to the task of assuring human salvation.

In accord with this concept of the free market came other freedoms to supplement and enhance it: the freedom of an individual to engage in enterprise, the freedom to speak his mind and worship his God, the freedom to choose those who govern, as well as protection from those who govern, through a system of «checks and balances» whereby each of the three branches of government curbed the power of the others.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

Turks who came as soldiers began to fill administrative posts in Baghdad and soon so much power in the government passed into their hands that they could dethrone Caliphs.

The reason our forefathers put a separation of church and state in our government was because they all came out of England, where every shift in power required everyone in the country to worship in the King's faith.