Sentences with phrase «government handing power»

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Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.

By the time the West struck back just under a week later, armed resistance in the areas around the Syrian government's seat of power had all but collapsed, further strengthening the hand of President Bashar al - Assad.

After power changed hands in D.C. a year later, the federal government and Congress delayed picking up the baton for several months due to partisan bickering and lobbying by special interests.

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

The U.S. government has warned that it would take «swift economic actions» if the Venezuelan government proceeds with a July 30 move to rewrite the constitution to consolidate power in the hands of President Nicolas Maduro.

The B.C. Liberals abdicated their responsibility and ignored the voices of B.C. communities, First Nations and businesses by handing over decision - making power for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project to the federal government.

The threat to the Union and the necessity of financing a huge war tended to center more attention and power in the hands of the Federal Government.

But there was also doubt that the task could be well handled by government and fear of concentrating too much power in the hands of government.

In this experience of sin lies the root of the principle of limited government, and of the balancing of systems and powers, so that the instruments of potential tyranny do not fall into a single set of hands.

World government could easily become a threat to freedom and justice if power were concentrated in the hands of oppressive leadership.

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.

second thing, the church... and i mean any church has absolutely zero, zilch, no power of marriage; that honor thankfully is in the hands of our secular government which is free from religions direct influence.

In order to do this the government invoked Article 82 of the Belgian constitution, which had been used during World War II when the king was in the hands of the enemy» the Nazis» and the government had taken over the king's powers.

We can imagine a Russia in which an authoritarian government accepts religious pluralism and economic oligarchy in exchange for a free hand with the media and political power.

And the cause for this shameful, dark spot on the conscience of this country lies on the hands of those who sit in the seats of power (government), but have done NOTHING to prevent this crime against the citizens of this country.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

So, I will gladly stand against any force that seeks my enslavement or wants power over me, because I support a government of, by, and for the people and the 2nd Amendment is what delievers that power into the hands of the people.

There are also some pleasant passages in which the government pledges to respect European case law and hand powers to the Scottish and Welsh governments over devolved issues heading back to them from the EU, like agriculture and fisheries.

We have never handed the government so much power.

It involves handing power to individuals in a bid to persuade them, as the manifesto's front cover put it, to «join the government of Britain».

It may be pertinent to mention that the book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.

As the SMC was preparing to hand over political power to an elected government after a Constituent Assembly had drafted the Third Republican Constitution, the country was hit by another military uprising on May 5, 1979 which was swiftly quelled by the authorities.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

Although the power - sharing requirements for devolved government under the Good Friday Agreement were probably essential to involve the mainstream parties representing both communities, they handed a veto on progress to those parties.

The draft «Brighton declaration», distributed to the 46 signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights, contains a series of measures which seek to hand back more powers to national governments.

The introduction of metro mayors, on the other hand, was part of the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the 2015 general election, and part of their wider plan to devolve more powers from national government to city regions.

Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has accused the Akufo - Addo government of bad faith over the order of 43 vehicles by the Mahama administration for the presidency few days to the handing over power.

Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.

The government's plans will take power away from local communities and hand it to chief executives

But then he needs to appreciate that some of the issues on which the 2010 — 15 Tory rebels defied the whip were rooted in 2010 manifesto pledges, a document that included the words, «We will ensure that by law no future government can hand over areas of power to the EU or join the Euro without a referendum of the British people.»

Labour has failed in a bid to halt plans the Opposition claimed would hand sweeping powers to ministers to close hospitals.The Government saw off an amendment which would have cut Trust Special Administration from the Care Bill, winning a Commons vote 297 to 239, majority 58.

[66][67][114] Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant the two effectively shared power in the 2010 — 16 government, whilst commentators pointed to Osborne's hand in Cabinet reshuffles.

Together with Citizens United, this decision guts our campaign finance system and opens the door to corruption by handing a small minority of wealthy individuals the power to exercise undue influence over our government.»

The shadow home secretary also proposed a habitual residence test for jobseekers» allowance, controls on EU movement after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and, worst of all, arrest powers for UKBA — easily the most incompetent, heartless and cack - handed division of government.

Jeremy Corbyn pledges that a future Labour government will hand workers «more power» to fight for higher pay

The British government's failure to keep its word on the issue demonstrates once again that it is determined to keep as much power in its own hands as possible.

Along with Andrew Cuomo's governorship and Sheldon Silver's unassailable Assembly majority, this would put Democratic hands on every lever of power in the state government.

Yet this bill would hand powers straight from the Assembly to Government Ministers and then there would be no way Assembly Members could scrutinise their decisions.

The government's NHS reforms include an administrative overhaul, scrapping primary care trusts and handing over commissioning power to GP consortia.

«We are particularly concerned about the failure on the part of successive governments and majority parties to address the well - known gaps and deficiencies in the 1992 Constitution such as overconcentration of legal and constitutional power in hands of the executive branch in general (especially the presidency), and indirectly, the governing political party.»

Fully 17 years after a Labour government started handing power to the periphery of Britain and to London, provincial England is still overwhelmingly run from Westminster.

And Liberals argued for local government to have a role in the NHS right from its founding, for fear that a fully centralised system would put too much power in the hands of central government instead of the professionals and the patients.

The government is introducing the localism bill that aims to hand powers back to local communities from central government.

The wiki article defines autocracy as «a system of government in which a supreme power is concentrated in the hands of ONE person.»

The Shipley MP wants to see the government being tougher on crime by handing out longer prison sentences and he is keen for magistrates to be given extended sentencing powers.

On the other hand, some say the new government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo is only in its second month and as such the blame for the current wave of dumsor should be blamed on the previous government who failed to solve it after eight years in power.

July 2006 - The Government of Wales Act hands the Assembly new powers.

The government plans to hand commissioners the power to hire and fire the chief constable, secure the maintenance for the police force and control the police's budget and strategy.

Aregbesola said though May 29, in 1999, was the date the military handed over power to civilian administration, opined that June 12 would remain symbolic in the political structure of Nigeria as it represents the day of reckoning and the realization of a truly democratic government that approximates the yearnings and aspirations of the people.