Sentences with phrase «government over the crisis»

Several MPs have taken to Twitter in support of Baroness Warsi after she resigned from the Government over the crisis in Gaza.

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He launched Canadian Hunter Exploration in 1973, a year characterized by an oil crisis abroad that led to shortages at gasoline pumps in the U.S. Closer to home, confrontations intensified between the federal and provincial governments over managing Alberta's energy resources.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office last year found the six largest financial companies, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, lost nearly $ 16 billion in their proprietary trading units in just over 12 months during the crisis.

He maintains the government's actions during the crisis saved the country and contends his prosecution is an attempt to discredit his Independence Party, which ruled for well over a decade.

In Bair's account, the Treasury's prioritization of the well - being of financial institutions over the well - being of homeowners has hobbled the government's foreclosure response since the beginning of the crisis.

Blankfein served in Goldman's top spot for more than 12 years and his tenure features both the 2008 financial crisis (and multimillion - dollar settlements with the government over allegations that Goldman had lied to investors) as well as all - time highs for its stock price.

JPMorgan Chase, seeking to avert a wave of litigation from the government, is negotiating a multibillion - dollar settlement with state and federal agencies over the bank's sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis.

The Chretien government, dealing with a fiscal crisis, set an explicit deficit target over a two - year period with a commitment to meet it, «come hell or high water».

Spain's constitutional crisis seems set to rumble on, as the central government looks to re-assert its authority over Catalonia.

The rouble has weakened some 30 percent versus the dollar this year, as Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis have made it harder for banks and companies to refinance foreign currency debts and as tumbling oil prices have hurt government revenue.

«As another of the government's self - imposed deadlines for securing a deal slipped away, disagreements between the two sides on budget targets persisted,» is another one of those sentences about the Greek crisis that could have been written almost any Monday over the past few months, and that you'll probably read again next Monday.

Canada's economy will not fully recover until 2013 and the federal government will carry a structural budgetary deficit of C$ 19 billion ($ 17.6 billion) after the crisis, a report by the parliamentary budget officer said on Monday... «PBO calculations continue to suggest that the budget is not structurally balanced over the medium term,» the report said.

Over the period 2008 - 09 to 2014 - 15, the federal debt increased by $ 155 billion, attributable to impact of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and the stimulus measures implemented by the government under its Economic Action Plans.

How will the government respond in the budget to the uncertainty created by the short - and long - term fiscal crisis in the U.S., the on - going uncertainty over the recession in the EU and the continuing uncertainty over the future of the EURO area?

Our measure of the U.S. equity risk premium — one gauge of equities» expected return over government debt — has fallen since the global financial crisis.

Making matters worse is the government's management of the crisis; over the past year, it has persisted in upholding its debt payments, but has now hit a brick wall as its foreign reserves have dwindled to US$ 9 billion.

The eurozone then struggled with a crisis over excessive government and bank debt that threatened to break up the currency union.

Thus, I would argue that the current «crisis» in Quebec over tuition fees has been largely created by successive federal governments that have defunded Canadian universities, indeed putting provincial governments «between a rock and a hard place.»

Analysts and investors in Moscow said the sanctions could consign Russia to years of low growth, frustrating government efforts to stimulate a rebound from a two - year downturn brought on by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.

In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail - ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming socialist society... and much, much more.

Since some of our writers have been taking up the great theme related to the «end of history,» it might be foolish to think that any of the details in the news over the past few weeks — the government shutdown, the debt crisis crisis, the Obama care website — have any lasting impact.

The President's trip was for the purpose of determining what can be done, beyond the various government programs now in effect, to help drought sufferers over the crisis.

The government is facing accusations of complacency over its response to the Russian gas crisis engulfing Europe.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has warned the government not to «crow» over the latest unemployment figures as the country still faces an employment crisis.

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

Greeks have witnessed discussions shift from $ 1 billion in additional measures (last proposal put forth by the New Democracy - PASOK government following demands from creditors), to over $ 10 billion in additional measures last month, to today's «Greekment» according to which Greece will undergo harsher austerity (for next three years) than at any other point since the crisis began.

«Most of the crises over the years in Taraba State were particularly in Takum, Wukari, Ussa, Donga and Sardauna Local Government Areas.

He said failure over the years to take power generation seriously had resulted in the power crisis, as demand exceeded supply, and mentioned how the government worked extra hard to end the crisis.

The next government fiscal crisis is boiling over in counties and municipalities, and taxpayers again are catching the heat.

Its blunt assessment of the causes of the crisis in which the then Labour government found itself was summed up in this phrase: «First among these [causes] has been the failure to establish effective control over financial policies».

Very courageous of my brave friend @sayeedawarsi to resign over this Governments inexplicable silence and total weakness on the #Gaza crisis

Last week, after eight years of Conservative government at Westminster, and against the backdrop of crises over immigration and the NHS, and deadlock on Brexit, Labour had hoped to benefit from Theresa May's troubles and consolidate its position on the local council.

The coalition government's response to the global financial crisis has been to follow a singular path of deficit reduction over the next 4 years.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

The British government's handling of the Libya situation over the weekend has transformed the political impact of the crisis.

Miliband was in the middle of a campaign visit to highlight what he called the «cost of living crisis» presided over by the government.

Shadow immigration minister Damien Green said: «Until the government gets a grip on the prison overcrowding crisis, the problems will continue to spill over and cause dangerous tensions in immigration detention centres.»

Meanwhile Labour today stepped up its attacks on the government over its handling of the crisis.

Flint, Michigan Mayor Karen Weaver thanked Hillary Clinton, saying the former secretary of state's concern over the city's water crisis helped spur government action for her constituents.

Brown says Cameron is more opportunistic because he didn't keep on supporting the government over the financial crisis.

It is crystal clear to all and sundry that the federal government has no intention of solving the crisis it created when it murdered over 1000 people in Zaria peacefully.

Finally, I think that the Sununu would win over Shaheen but the bigger chance is that the governor will run against Sununu and unless the N.H. state government collapses into crisis that should be a disaster for the GOP.

The government's much - criticised NHS reforms faced a new crisis today, when Tory MPs started to rebel over the plans.

Writing in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he argued the emphasis on the crisis of debt having a «strong hold over government policy» was no accident - and warned Labour needs to do more to combat it.

Speaking to journalists over the issue on Thursday, November 10, Mr Buah said the letter has been orchestrated by the opposition after being «dumbfounded» about efforts of government within a short period to solve the energy crisis.

The Welsh Labour government is presiding over a childcare crisis, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has today claimed.

«Benue State Government should have a rethink over the anti-open grazing law in order to avert any crisis that might erupt in the state.»

In an interview with our correspondent in Lafia on Sunday, a former Chairman, Tiv Consultative Forum in Keana local government area, Chief Augustine Kuza, expressed worry over the unjustifiable destruction of farmlands in the areas and appealed to both the federal and state governments to urgently intervene in the situation to avoid a crisis.

«The major findings of the investigation panel include; one, most of the crises over the years in Taraba State were particularly in Takum, Wukari, Ussa, Donga and Sardauna Local Government Areas.