Sentences with phrase «governments as an excuse»

Any failure to implement the recommendations of this report will be treated by some governments as an excuse to do nothing.

As medical and public health researchers we do not want to be used by the government as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

The potential for conflict should not be used by government as an excuse to avoid the recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law or by Aboriginal communities to condone breaches of human rights.

Not exact matches

They really are using a public relations cover story as an excuse to give away government enterprise on the cheap to their backers.

The government accused the holders of using the provision as an excuse to pass losses caused by historically low electricity prices on to the taxpayer, and announced that it was seeking a court order to declare the «change in law» provision void.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

I prefer to think of Theftmas as a «government sanctioned excuse to have a paid day off» which is all that really matters...

I don't doubt that some people use government activity as an excuse not do something themselves.

Thus Hitler could appeal to the threat of a Jewish plot to rule the world as an excuse for illegal and tyrannic moves by the government.

We could not believe their excuse: «We wanted to raise wages, but the government refused, as it would destabilize wages throughout the industry.»

Do not use me as an excuse for not using your government to help those less fortunate than you.

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

While it may be tempting to point to the fact that Russia is at odds (to put it mildly) with the US and GB is an ally, I don't think that British agents (of other branches of the GB government) are excused from registering as foreign agents.

Second, because it is difficult to imagine a Labour leader paying such a tribute because of fear that his words would be used as an excuse to denounce him as a big government junkie.

Those who prefer permanent one - party government ask us a hard question: won't coalition always be used as an all - purpose excuse by politicians who want to betray their promises to the voters?

This is the conclusion of my paper, Free Universities, that the government's claim that «our student finance reforms will deliver savings to help address the large Budget deficit we were left» was disingenuous at best and that in fact the public spending crisis was used as an excuse to private higher education.

The organisation said that, «While it is important to protect personal integrity in social media, a clean, transparent and accountable government that has nothing to fear will not use this ground as an excuse to undermine the sacred right to freedom of expression.»

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he wants to win an overall majority in the general election as the coalition government «has become an excuse for broken promises».

We have no excuse as a country and as a government that every Nigerian can not go and get primary healthcare.

Shadow Brexit Secretary Kier Starmer said: «Labour will not let the Government use Brexit as an excuse to roll back fundamental rights.

«It would be lamentable for Labour to use this tired old science fiction as an excuse not to vote for the programme it devised in government and has continued to support in opposition.»

A Libyan government spokesman described the coalition attacks as «aggression without excuse» and claimed many civilians had been hurt.

He said that the delay in the implementation of the project explains why the 4, 5 and 6 lines are «the most heavily traveled lines in the world» and blasted what he described as excuses made by the government that prevented the line from being built.

«The government knows that since the ruling there is no legal basis for making internet service providers retain our data, so it is using the threat of terrorism as an excuse for getting this law passed,» he said.

Governments in industrialised countries strongly support the drive to increase free trade, while poorer countries fear that the North will use environmental protection as an excuse for trade protectionism.

Put simply, the lower classes, the sick and the disabled are seen as parasites to a dulled - down, media - controlled society that perpetuates and excuses a fascist government.

Marjane thinks it's funny that she got the man arrested; her grandmother, repulsed by the fact that Marjane has used her sex — the very thing the government is trying so hard to control — as an excuse, a manipulation, is furious with her.

The subtext of the (mediocre) first film has become text in the (far better) sequels: the Purge is the authoritarian government's excuse to declare war on the lower class, as the privileged have the resources to survive the night while low - income families get wiped out.

And each month when his paycheck from the U.S. Government arrives in his mailbox, he calls into the office with a complaint as an excuse to talk to Sarah Ross (Mary - Louise Parker).

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

This is a great con by the RC Church that the Government is being duped by (Greening saw through it, I suspect)-- or that Hinds is using as an excuse to do favours to his own church.

The Government used the exam results as an excuse to close the school in its drive to create academies.

Whether it's a pissed off French mime, a really hopeful lawyer playing the lawsuit lottery out of California, the government of Thailand, or a handful of savages eager to use a cartoon of Mohammad as an excuse to burn, loot, rape, and kill — they're going to step aside and let the publisher bear the blame.

The opposition claims the German government is using the environment as a lame excuse to raise taxes.

Enviornmental changes have had little role in the great disaters such as Rwanda or the Balkans, stop trying to create the Global Warming Bogeyman as an excuse for criminal governments.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

The carbon price should not be used as an excuse to scrap other existing climate policies or preclude new ones, and the Government should consider reinstating policies it has already scrapped.

«The fact that other governments aren't acting as quickly doesn't excuse the Dutch government from acting» according to the court ruling, said Moffett, «because it has responsibilities to its own citizens.»

The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does, mostly in the same areas with some differences in order to give people an excuse to keep voting.

Although the world's governments have not come together at the international level, as demonstrated in the most recent climate talks this fall, this is no excuse for inaction.

His latest proposed cuts in CO2 emissions of an impossible 30 % by 2020 will be used merely as an excuse to initially bolster his government's flagging status.

Here we find the new government using their «mandate» to abolish the carbon tax as an excuse to jettison any progress that has been hard won in Australia in renewables and cleantech industries.

The reality of coalition government excuses all such committments, (as then you're being governed by no elected government).

Because it has been scientifically well established that there is a great risk of catastrophic harm from human - induced change (even though it is acknowledged that there are remaining uncertainties about timing and magnitude of climate change impacts), no high - emitting nation, sub-national government, organization, business, or individual of greenhouse gases may use some remaining scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts as an excuse for not reducing its emissions to its fair share of safe global greenhouse gas emission on the basis of scientific uncertainty.

The Bush approach, ably supported by the Howard government, was to encourage the most intransigent elements in the Chinese government to resist any movement on climate policy, then point to that intransigence as an excuse for US (and Australian) inaction.

The Economist was echoing the warnings of critics who had identified one of the major risks associated with pursuit of CCS as the way in which it would undermine global mitigation efforts by giving national governments an excuse to do nothing in the hope that coal plants could be rendered safe.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

I mean, imagine what would happen if there was a huge terror attack, and the government used it as an excuse to extend wire tapping efforts and suspended habeas corpus and opened special prisons and such.

While trucking companies will use the ice patch as an excuse, the federal government has declared that federal trucks must be able to maintain control of the truck regardless of the weather conditions.