Sentences with phrase «governments failed»

Citing historical examples where governments failed to maintain the value of their fiat currencies, she noted bitcoin's value is partly derived from a lack of reliance on central bank backing, as some of the cryptocurrency's investors may have «more faith in technology than in their government.»

Previous governments failed, but their officials including both Prime Ministers have recognized that in light of changing circumstances and information.

Almost inevitably, at international summits from Kyoto to Copenhagen, governments failed to take any meaningful action on global warming.

A national average of $ 6,800 per year per teacher pays former teachers» pensions that state and local governments failed to save up for while those teachers were working.

The only regret is that successive governments failed to save for the present rainy day we are experiencing when prices were at their peak.

Efforts being put in this year come after successive governments failed to save the steelworks in Redcar, Teesside, after Tata initially stopped production in 2009.

In just two years we have taken on some challenges — such as reforming student finance and public sector pensions — which previous Conservative governments failed to tackle in decades.

Armed with social media, the young people of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revolted because their governments failed to respect and ensure the collective dignity of their citizens.

And while the previous Labour governments failed in many of these areas, it is important to note that there were some positive steps, too.

Valliere is critical of the ways in which he feels both the U.S. and local governments failed Puerto Rico through slow responses or inaction.

Not only did the government fail to ease foreign ownership and entry restrictions in the key sectors of telecom and air transport, it rendered the Investment Canada Act's foreign investment review process more uncertain and less transparent.

But many economists warn the stimulus could give the sluggish economy only a temporary jolt if the government fails to follow through with politically more difficult economic reforms.

«We also see many governments failing to prepare for the future, on issues ranging from retirement and infrastructure to automation and worker retraining.

Here's what services are «essential» and would continue if the government fails to pass a new spending bill by Friday, USA Today reports.

Peter Schuck's new book Why Government Fails So Often provides a thoughtful if pessimistic analysis.

The book explains things such as why people betray each other, why friends stick together, and why governments fail.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

If the government fails to table Main Estimates on or prior to March 1st, it can not undertake spending on any of the voted items until Parliamentary approval is granted.

The IMF added that if growth was lower than expected or if the Greek government failed to meet targets for running a surplus on its budget excluding interest payments, there would be «significant increases in debt and gross financing needs».

If the government fails to table Main Estimates on or prior to March 1st, it would not be able to undertake spending on any of the «voted «items until Parliamentary approval were granted.

Rome - Italy is facing a third month of political paralysis after talks between the centre - left and the Five Star Movement over a coalition government failed to get off the ground Thursday.

The government failed to amend its own bill after failing to listen.

A downgrade on debt issued by the United States would have less severe consequences than a default, which takes places when a government fails to pay its creditors.

After assuring the public that the report would be made publicly available this past fall, Premier Christy Clark and her government failed to...

After assuring the public that the report would be made publicly available this past fall, Premier Christy Clark and her government failed to do so.

«Given economic conditions in the province, if the government fails to restrain spending, the pace of debt accumulation in Alberta may be extremely rapid,» study co-author Ben Eisen added.

Simply creating locations dubbed «innovation centers» by the government fails to produce the requisite mix of talent, expertise, market, and culture necessary to prompt success in this sort of venture.

The court ruling shows that the premier's bad decision left her government failing to properly consult, dealing yet another blow to this government's relationships with First Nations.

The US Government failed to reach any sort of deal to approve a budget last Friday.

The Federal Court of Appeal then found that the Federal Government failed to properly consult Indigenous communities, but affirmed our engagement on the project.

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The Christian minority in Cairo is angry that the new government failed to protect them and their churches...

«Regarding attacks on religious groups, the government failed to take steps to hold perpetrators accountable or protect the vulnerable.»

Elections are essential when authoritarian governments fail, although the opposite is also true.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

The video of the killing of the journalist, Kenji Goto, came two days after a deadline set by the extremists expired and the Jordanian government failed to give in to their demands that they exchange a convicted would - be suicide bomber for Mr. Goto's life.

«When governments fail to make these agri - corporations accountable for their crimes, people's movement proves to be the most important factor to effect change in agriculture policies.

After the government failed to bring in the new top rate for individuals, French companies will now have to pay the 75 per cent rate as a business cost (30 per cent up to $ 1m then an additional 45 per cent after).

At present, there are only civil society campaigns such as the Nestlé boycott and DanoNO campaigns to hold these companies to account when governments fail to do so.

The Nigeria Labour Union Monday, insisted that it will proceed on its industrial action, slated to commence on Wednesday should the Federal Government fails to yield to its request by reversing to old pump price of petrol.

It was a compromise measure after the government failed to get parliament to agree to a 90 - day detention without trial period.

This was even as organized labour threatened to shut down Nigeria should the Federal Government fail to accede to its request for a reversal.

Comfort concludes that most British governments of the last 60 years have been held prisoner by events, and the frequent changes of government failed to instil any long - term stability in industrial policy.

Speaking with reporters, Cuomo defended the attention he's given to Puerto Rico following last year's storm, saying the federal government failed to pick up the slack.

«Her appointing Government failed in the rigging agenda despite all the attempts by the Commission to narrow the election to a two - party race to facilitate easy rigging for the incumbent.

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Once we put it out of our power to reconsider, we have made and will keep a covenant with the past, with the victim, our fellow citizen who the government failed to protect from the predator.

The government failed to give the victims and survivors of the July 7th bombings the support they needed after the terror attacks, a new Home Office report finds.

What the government fails to understand is that, for many people, home ownership will never be an option.

However, we are disappointed that the government failed to take the opportunity to change the rules for self - employed claimants in universal credit.