Sentences with phrase «government took office»

Many organisations have highlighted the funding cuts affecting the sector since the Coalition Government took office in 2013.

This 170 percent increase in the amount of land slated for agribusiness, much of it under forest cover, since Myanmar's new government took office, and the additional millions of acres identified as available for agricultural conversion, contradicts national statements purporting to protect Myanmar's remaining forests and land rights.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) claimed that pay freezes and below - inflation rises had left public sector workers # 2,245 worse off on average since the UK coalition government took office.

The Ghanaian economy is regaining its confidence after the Nana Addo - led government took office and put in place strategic measures to revamp the system.

However, ever since the coalition government took office four and a half years ago, this target has proved impossible to keep and May admitted earlier this year that it was proving harder and harder to aim for.

As well as the failure of wages to keep up with prices that has seen the average worker lose # 1,600 in annual income since the Tory - led government took office more workers are worried about losing their job than at any time since these records began.

Last year, spending on Jobseeker's Allowance alone was half a billion pounds higher than when this Government took office.

And the fact is, when this Government took office, focusing exclusively on further and faster tax rises and spending cuts, business and consumer confidence collapsed, firms postponed investments and stopped taking on workers.

«Your Excellency, you are the first Ghanaian leader to visit China since your new government took office.

When the Jean Chrétien government took office in 1993, the bilingual Gray was appointed Government House Leader and Solicitor General of Canada.

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

At present, the NTC appears to be operating under a mistaken «security and legitimacy - first» doctrine which maintains that bold initiatives can not be undertaken until further stability is achieved and an elected government takes office after the June elections.

1) If the Lisbon Treaty has not been ratifed when a Conservative government takes office, a referendum should be held on the Treaty immediately.

Writing in the New Statesman within days of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government taking office, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress dismissed the coalition's plans as «madness» and complained of «needless austerity».

Real reconciliation, to use the term favoured by a succession of chief justices, will only become likely when a government takes office that genuinely wants to forge new relationships and when Canada decides that the best way to interpret obligations set out in agreements will follow a line between clear and plain meaning and a purposive interpretation.

Not exact matches

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 government's General Services Administration previously said it would refrain from commenting on the apparent contract violation until Trump took office, which he did at noon Friday.

But the Ohio native, who took the top job at Google Canada last May after several years overseeing Google's local and government sales at its Chicago office, brings his own extra method to the company's madness.

Sherman and his pharmaceutical company, Apotex, were registered to lobby the Prime Minister's Office months after Trudeau took over the role, according to government watchdog Democracy Watch, which filed the complaint against the billionaire.

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

He is expected to discuss the auto industry's improvement after the government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler shortly after he took office.

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.

The federal government has secured opposition support to pass one of the most substantial budget packages since the Coalition took office in 2013, making trade - offs on renewable energy funding and welfare payments to pick up about $ 6 billion in savings.

There was a significant effort before Trump took office to download climate data from government websites to private servers.

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.»

And throughout his first year in office, Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward the fraying South American country's government.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business called the reforms «the worst decision this government has made since taking office.»

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.

When an employee takes a government job that requires divesting of assets in order to prevent conflicts of interest — as the role of Treasury Secretary certainly would, and did for the current holder of that office, Steven Mnuchin — J.P. Morgan's policy fast - tracks the vesting of the employee's stock awards.

The report points to September 2015 data released by the Government Accountability Office, which shows about 330,000 people, or roughly 11 % of the Americans who've taken out Parent Plus loans, have gone at least a year without making a payment.

Last week, a group of prominent senators sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, asking it to take a closer look at peer - to - peer lenders and other alternative lenders that have emerged in the past few years.

If the Conservatives hadn't touched the federal corporate tax rate when they took office in 2006 — if they'd kept it at 21 per cent instead of lowering it to 15 per cent — government revenues would be $ 13 billion higher, the Canadian Labour Congress argued in a paper last January.

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for Wall Street regulator Comptroller of the Currency bought financial stocks until he took office in November, according to financial disclosure documents filed with the Office of Government Eoffice in November, according to financial disclosure documents filed with the Office of Government EOffice of Government Ethics.

These are the practices that Eliot Spitzer's office took the lead in investigating when Pres. Bush's deregulatory appointees blocked the SEC and other government agencies from protecting the public interest.

The venture capitalist / SEC gathering took place shortly after the US Government Accountability Office published a 132 - page report, which found that distributed ledger technology remains in its infancy, and complex regulation threatens to stifle advancements.

«The parties involved in the transaction apparently took extreme measures to ensure that their identities would not be disclosed,» CREW wrote in its complaint to the Justice Department and the Office of Government Ethics.

Reuters: «Trump's nominee for Wall Street regulator Comptroller of the Currency bought financial stocks until he took office in November, according to financial disclosure documents filed with the Office of Government Eoffice in November, according to financial disclosure documents filed with the Office of Government EOffice of Government Ethics.

In the process, she learned a ton about government, got a nice resume item, and now takes it for granted that she can run for any office she wants (she is leaning towards Prime Minister).

After choosing a business name, you can take a bold step to get it registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission or your local government office.

The Liberal government took several important steps during its first year in office, but its bold feminist rhetoric has not yet translated into policy and spending decisions that push the needle forward on gender equality.

He endorsed Jason Kenney and his multistep bid to take over the Alberta PC party, merge it with the Wildrose, and stampede Rachel Notley's NDP out of the provincial legislature's government offices.

She said long - term projections by the Congressional Budget Office that take account of rising government benefits as baby boomers retire «should keep people awake at night.»

Upon taking office, one of the president's first acts was to slash the previous administration's energy subsidies, which cost the government more than $ 51 billion over the past 13 years.

If Mr. Trump takes office on January 20, 2017, it will be just as urgent to have a Congress as committed as possible to life, religious freedom, constitutional government, and colorblind equality as a counterbalance to who - knows - what will be coming out of the White House.

Evangelical institutions suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate expected that their legal battle would end when President Donald Trump took office.

CNN: Pew survey: Middle East Muslims support democracy, Islam in politics Just as an Islamist president takes office in Egypt, a major survey shows that most Muslims in nations in or close to the Middle East want both democracy and a strong role for Islam in politics and government.

Because what took place was in a government office meant for use to take care of our country.

The UK should therefore follow the example of other parliamentary democracies and affirm the first principle of all caretaker conventions: a caretaker government can not resign until an alternative government has taken office because the country can not be left without a functioning executive.

«When taking office I emphasised that the government must listen and learn.

The footage which was taken by CCTV cameras at the seat of government on January 9, 2017 — President Akufo - Addo's first day in office — showed members of the vigilante group chasing ASP Nanka as he drove out of the Flagstaff House.