Sentences with phrase «government doing anything about it»

Is the government doing anything about it?

So the best way to stop government doing anything about it you should show how they shouldn't do anything.

Whether or not the Federal Government does anything about it has very little to do with what we do here.

Not exact matches

As is often the case, the Government is busy pointing their finger at energy providers and energy providers are busy pointing their finger at the Government - but no one seems to be doing anything about it, and the people (and businesses) of South Australia are caught in the middle.

What is disappointing to me here is that even under the NDP reign, the Alberta government still pretends it is serious about protecting and recovering endangered species but refuses to do just about anything meaningful in relation to the most important step in the process — which is to protect critical habitat.

Canadians are giving up hope that the Harper government is serious about doing anything to stop climate change.

JD has filed formal complaints, however I do not expect the Chinese government to do anything about it.

Somehow instead of doing this liberals want government to be more involved in helping the poor that way they can feel good about themselves without doing anything.

While the statement made about government welfare during the time of Christ has some merit, I believe that Republicans should take a good look at themselves and ask are they doing anything to stop poverty around the world, as I believe Christ would want his followers to do.

The statement continued, «Indeed, this is not about the church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the church — consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions — to act against church teachings.»

And the moslem government didn't do anything about it.

«Congress has only faced votes a few times on the complex legal and moral questions of whether heinous crimes qualify as genocide — and division is deep about what, if anything, the label mandates the U.S. government to do.»

and if you knew anything about JWs you would know they have nothing to do with the governments of this world except to obey their laws when they do not conflict with Jehovah's laws.

And in all likelihood, no government agency is doing anything about it.

The ecological fund that someone talked about does not exist because the previous government, due to political consideration, never gave Lagos anything and protecting the shoreline runs into billions.

«About six months into my race for Congress I decided if I do anything, if I spend any more time in government, my efforts would be best spent going to Congress and representing people in the 25th Congressional District, «Assini said

The government has been warned about the growing numbers for years but has so far failed to do anything to stem the problem.

Governments of these countries seems to be worried about such a tendency but can't do anything about it.

Playing the postcode lottery card makes it harder for a future Tory government do actually do anything about it.

During the Q&A portion of the press conference (which begins at about 4:00) I asked Astorino questions about other Sandy - related topics, including his view of the overall response to Sandy by New York State government and whether he would do anything differently concerning the NYS Department of Financial Services and it's regulation of insurance companies, which he would control as governor.

Andy Coulson The thing about having Coulson in Downing Street was that no one in government would take the story seriously, because they didn't want to do anything that might embarrass Andy.

Admitting the looming spending cuts were overshadowing the Government's other work, the Deputy Prime Minister said: «If anything, we are doing the most difficult things now, partly because everything is so obscured by the bad, worrying news about deficit reduction.

He hasn't done anything to proactively support the proposal, deflecting to the federal government when asked about the legislation; the state proposal is different from the federal legislation of the same name.

«I don't know about you,» Steele writes in the message, «but I don't believe there is anything patriotic about giving more of your hard - earned money to the government to bankroll the liberal Democrats» agenda.»

Far from doing anything about it, the government relaxes local planning rules and sucks money from local councils, making them even weaker in the face of these companies, who are meanwhile made richer with George Osborne's cut to corporation tax.

Labour, he insisted, had plenty of credibility to crow about, with the last Labour government's policies on smoking, display advertising, and vending machines, but he admitted that on alcohol «I don't think you could say we were anything like quite as bold.»

Don't think about Ukip forming the government in 2015 but if we continue at anything like our current progress, who knows?

«This is a very short trip, I'm literally there for just about a day, and we're going to do economic development meetings, and I won't have an opportunity to do anything much more than that,» he said, saying he would spend the trip conferring with Israeli government ministers.

90 % of respondents to a recent Theos - commissioned survey said they thought Christmas was too commercialised but there seems little, if anything, the government can do about it.

Given the amount of pork flowing into Tory marginal seats, I'm surprised the government haven't done anything about the Lincoln rail crossing, which splits the High Street in half and causes traffic chaos day and night.

Hammond also attacks the Government's inability to do anything about human rights legislation, because of the Liberal Democrats» willingness to block any reform:

And yet he noted that at present it is impossible to do anything about the situation because there has been no promise from the government that long - term funding would be in place.

Successive governments have talked about land reform, made lavish promises and failed to do anything.

And then go ask some politician who doesn't know or care anything about environment to name the modern world's worst political trouble spots, where state government has already collapsed or is at risk of collapsing or where there have been civil wars or dispatches of American troops or exoduses of millions of desperate illegal immigrants or terrorists.

And if you had any way of understanding the value of money, you'd see that NASA doesn't get enough money for «government projects of scale», and that Congress could care less about doing anything with the over-blown rocket hardware they are saddling NASA with.

Sadly, this world has diverged into a world eating processed food and the U.S. government isn't doing anything about this world - wide issue.

Midnight Special, nominally about a supernaturally gifted child pursued by the government and by a Texas doomsday cult, is more of a genre piece than anything Nichols has done, carried by its steady momentum and its engrossing sense of mystery.

George W. Bush tried the [Healthy Marriage Initiative], and to his great credit, they did evaluations of them, and evaluations are that it's hard for government to do anything about that part of the problem.

«It's not that the states or the federal government has said «We're not going to do anything about schools.»

Governments, legal systems, and law enforcement agencies have found themselves unable to do anything about the torrents of counterfeits streaming in over their borders.

What I was thinking about more than anything else was what government will do to stabilize Social Security.

Since they are a private company, the federal government can not do anything about it.

This school will say and do just about anything to take money and fraud the government.

Not that we should make consumption of goods illegal, just saying it wasn't until the government was real serious about change did anything really start top happen.

Student loans are a mounting problem and it doesn't look like the federal government is doing anything serious about them any time soon.

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The government has a responsibility to make people aware of the risks and what they need to do to stay safe (the huge number of warnings about and safety precautions for the last part of the Angels Landing trail in Zion NP in Utah, USA come to mind — you can't read anything about the trail or be on it without being warned about the dangers of that last section of trail), but they can't force every single person who passes through to respect those guidelines.»

Local businesses, police and government have been long aware of the issues — and didn't do anything about it.

The story is supposed to be about how Jodie is exploited for her powers by both Aiden and the government almost from birth, but we never see any indication that she's anything other than bowed and complicit in everything they want her to do.

I don't know about you, but I really don't want it to get to a point where the American Government can comfortably slither their fingers into anything to do with design choices in the Video Game Industry, even if it is for a seemingly «noble» cause like protecting people from predatory practices.