Sentences with phrase «government is in office»

In 1911, Andrew Fisher's Labor government was in office.

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To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

While they applaud the Harper Conservatives» shift toward engaging China after the chilly relations of their first two years in office, experts including Dobson wonder whether the government is sufficiently prepared to tackle thorny issues ranging from intellectual property protection to government procurement.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.»

Many Chinese government offices have been public about their interest in taking advantage of the blockchain technology for tasks like tracking people and products moving through industrial supply chains.

The council, formed by the White House Office of American Innovation (which is in turn helmed by White House Senior Adviser and Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner), has been tasked with modernizing government technology while also tackling the increasingly pertinent issue of cybersecurity.

Most of its customers would be covered by government insurance, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions would ensure an orderly death, and vultures would swoop in quickly to grab the valuable assets.

In 2007, The Laljis» company, Larco Group, struck a $ 1.7 - billion deal with the federal government to buy and then lease back seven Ottawa office buildings; the CBC reported in 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking feeIn 2007, The Laljis» company, Larco Group, struck a $ 1.7 - billion deal with the federal government to buy and then lease back seven Ottawa office buildings; the CBC reported in 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking feein 2015 that the arrangement has been plagued by years of disputes between the two parties, including acrimony over repairs, contract tendering and even parking fees.

It was not immediately clear what his $ 4 billion figure referred to, but a Government Accountability Office report published in March estimated that the total cost of replacing both jets would be $ 3.2 billion for fiscal years 2010 to 2020.

The United States has been falling behind on math and science test scores for decades — and waiting for help from the federal government is almost always a bad idea, no matter who is in office.

«There has been a dramatic regression in respect of the rule of law (since) the new government took office,» Blockmans added.

The government also wants to persuade five Asian head offices to set up in B.C. from any business sector by 2020, which would be aided by the currency arrangement.

The U.S. threatened to block the takeover of oil giant Unocal by the China National Offshore Oil Corp. in 2005; and when a merger created mega-miner BHP Billiton in 2001, the Australia government made sure the head office was located in Australia, not Britain.

The government has built four trade and investment offices throughout China, has doubled their staff, and set up former cabinet minister Ben Stewart as a new, permanent special representative who is based in Beijing.

The key is to open a dialogue with the proper government office and see if they would take an interest in your company.

Dozens of other loan programs — including the 504 Certified Development Loan Program, which is accessed by small - business owners for loans to buy large fixed assets and real estate — and many mentorship programs, including the SCORE system and Veteran's Business Development offices, would be shuttered in the case of a government shutdown.

The Court Government's 2000 decision to provide a $ 900,000 incentive package to Mediterranean Shipping Company, to relocate its Australasian shipping office from Sydney to Fremantle, is a third policy initiative in WA that appears to run counter to the new agreement.

The Government Accountability Office reportedthat over $ 171 million in student loan debt was collected on defaults in 2015.

Construction firm Georgiou Group has won a contract to build Primewest's $ 31 million multi-storey office development in Joondalup, which will be occupied by state government departments.

Thirteen months later, with Canadians staring at a $ 56 - billion crater in the government's finances, the minister got testy with reporters who were asking for his response to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Office that predicted a federal deficit of nearly $ 20 billion in 2013 - 14.

He's worked in the communications office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, helping to formulate the public messaging of a sometimes troubled and often misunderstood wing of the federal government.

The revelation the state government's Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $ 450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.

As The New York Times points out, this puts the Russian governement in an unusual position, as the messaging app has been known to be used by Russian government officials, including President Vladimir Putin's press office.

At the time Microsoft opened its Brussels transparency center in 2015, former Microsoft vice president of security for cloud and enterprise Matt Thomlinson wrote that the Belgium office would «give governments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa a convenient location to experience our commitment to transparency and delivering products and services that are secure by principle and by design.»

There have been no new railways, but the government has funded everything from refurbishment of Montreal's largest bridges to replacing doorknobs in RCMP offices in Charlottetown.

The Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program paid at least $ 1.2 million to duplicate or deceased recipients and more than one - third of participants out of 3.5 million reviewed appeared not to be eligible, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released on Thursday.

The trader, Bruno Iksil, who worked in JPMorgan's chief investment office in London and incurred losses on oversized positions in a derivatives market, is cooperating with government investigators, the source said.

The government's priority is to ensure that public services are not disrupted, said David Lidington, the minister in charge of the Cabinet Office, which oversees the running of government.

They also discussed opening a Washington, D.C., office to be in a better position to bid for government contracts.

Trump has sanctioned dozens of Venezuelan officials, including government ministers and military officers, since he took office — including the vice president, who was accused of involvement in international drug trafficking, and President Nicolas Maduro himself, whom the Trump administration has labeled a «dictator.»

«I'm really concerned that we're going to have a real collapse in Venezuela in oil production over the course of the next year,» which would in turn affect the government's ability to pay its debt, Rodriguez — who was head of the Venezuelan Congressional Budget Office from 2000 to 2004 — said at the AS / COA event.

As the Government Accountability Office explains, the markets began quoting prices in decimal increments rather than fractions of a dollar, while the minimum price increment was reduced to a penny on the stock market (and 5 or 10 cents on the options market).

You should also look for the charity's government registration with a state attorney general's office, which is required in 40 of 50 states before a charity can accept any funds.

Jung Ki - joon, head of economic policy coordination at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was found dead in Seoul on Sunday, Yonhap said.

«The government's basic rule is to prevent any illegal acts or uncertainties regarding cryptocurrency trade, while eagerly nurturing blockchain technology,» Hong Nam - ki, minister of the office for government policy coordination, said in a statement.

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

CSA general secretary Peter Montopoli says he has been in contact with staff in the office of Minister of State (Sport) Bal Gosal to discuss the CSA's plans; Gosal says he's had no official contact yet, but that the federal government is open to the possibility of a bid.

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.

Your identity has by now been logged into some vast spy database in a foreign country (probably China), where an intelligence agency is building up a profile around your persona — sourced from personal information available on social media and through breached health insurers, airlines, government offices, and the like.

Government officials are orchestrating a reversal of fortune for workers as they target low - level employees of major financial institutions, leaving the big fish in their corner offices.

Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump's son - in - law, helps lead the White House Office of American Innovation, which he said aims to bring «business sensibility» to the government.

The president's office has changed its security policies, while the government has updated software systems (though an estimated 82 percent of software in the country is unlicensed).

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D - Calif., chief sponsor of legislation that Democrats are pushing following Orlando, got numbers in March from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

Estimated at up to 120,000 in 2003 — «and not getting any smaller,» according to Trister — this backlog is responsible for the lengthy wait times at the various overseas offices where visa applicants must submit their forms to the Canadian government.

Well, although a number of states have stringent concealed carry laws, Illinois was the only state in the nation with such a sweeping ban, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed «was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»

«The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,» the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement at the time.

The White House will ensure that petitions that cross the signature threshold make their way to the right policy folks across the government (whether they're in a White House office like the Domestic Policy Council or at a federal department or agency).

A climbdown from Ms Lagarde's office is even less likely after the Leftist Syriza government crossed the rubicon and became the first developed country in the IMF's 71 - year - history to default on the world's «lender of last resort» this week.

«The government has been in office long enough to have a clear plan to deal with the current economic situation, but the sense of urgency from the Trudeau Liberals has been completely absent,» Ambrose said in a statement.