Sentences with phrase «government came under attack»

With the vote on the horizon, the Harper government came under attack Friday by its political opponents.

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Tech companies have long resisted outside intervention in how their sites should be policed, but have come under increasing pressure from Western governments to do more to remove extremist content following a wave of militant attacks.

The payment comes as Qualcomm's patent licensing business is increasingly under attack from government regulators and smartphone makers.

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.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, when projections of the budgetary balance were off by wide margins, the credibility of the Department of Finance's forecasting abilities came under attack from both inside and outside the government.

During the first of two parliamentary debates on the reform of the House of Lords, the Government's proposals to retain Church of England bishops have come under sustained attack.

The government's «shambolic» approach to relaxed border controls came under sustained attack from Ed Miliband in this week's prime minister's questions.

Government has come under attack by thousands of Ghanaians engaging in illegal mining threatening to vote against the ruling party in the next elections despite their (illegal miners) hazardous activities on the environment.

Miliband has come out today criticising the government for its outsourcing of police and security services «on a scale and at a speed never before seen», and has hence been under attack from furious government bods, police minister Nick Herbert today calling the Labour leader's remarks «cheap opportunism.»

Maybe the governor will change his position on taxes as our budget comes under attack from the federal government,» Bassett said.

Local government minister John Healey found his planning bill coming under attack from all sides of the Commons yesterday.

Agreeing that the government's measures «are fundamentally illiberal», Tom Clougherty, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, added: «It seems to me that tobacco is at the coalface of a much bigger cultural battle, in which capitalism, individualism and rationality are all coming under relentless attack by the enemies of freedom.»

Instead Remain has been able to set the agenda and even when their message — such as the Treasury case for Remain — comes under sustained attack, the only message that gets any cut through is that which the Government, rather than its opponents, want to see.

The move comes as social networks are under pressure from governments around the world to use technology tools to lock out individuals promoting religious violence, and others who use the platforms to recruit and launch attacks.

The government's criminal justice policy came under attack from all sides today as it faced numerous reports criticising its priorities, and objections to Jack Straw's decision to prevent Ronnie Biggs» parole.

The Federal Government has come under heavy attack over the Monday Kano park suicide bombing that claimed over 60 lives.

In the Daily Mirror he writes: «Today I will set out how Labour will be the last line of defence in your community for the NHS - an NHS now coming under sustained attack from Mr Cameron and his duplicitous Tory - led Government.

Defneders of the Israeli government have spent the past week claiming that Britain would behave just as ruthlessly if it came under attack from, say, a neighbouring territory in the same way that Israel has been targeted by militants in Gaza.

But ministers were forced to rethink their plans after they came under sustained attack from SNP and Labour MPs unhappy at the government's handling of the matter.

PARIS — France's mammoth basic research agency has come under blistering attack from the nation's government accounting body.

Support for science, and even acknowledging that scientific thought is a useful way to operate our government, has come under increasing partisan attack.

The rise of social media has long been credited with the Arab Spring movement, and sites like Twitter have actually come under legal attack within countries like Turkey for their ability to connect individuals in ways that the government disapproved of.

We have documented a number of home vegetable gardens that have come under attack from local governments in the pasts two years.

Yet, the professions have come under attack from dual fronts: from government, which often fails to consider professional expertise in relevant policy areas; and from the general public, which has come to view professionals suspiciously in an era of declining deference to authority.

Discretion is one of the core appeals of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies, but that freedom is coming under attack by government forces such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

IRS Targets Bitcoin Exchange Discretion is one of the core appeals of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies, but that freedom is coming under attack by government forces such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).