Sentences with phrase «into arms of the government»

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

Not exact matches

And that means investors will rush into the comforting arms of Uncle Sam's liabilities - US government bonds.

So did taxpayers: the U.S. government pumped billions of dollars into GM's and Chrysler's financing arms as part of broader efforts to rescue both manufacturers.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

«By establishing such a gaping loophole, the government will simply drive business away from lobbying consultants and into the arms of less reputable agencies.»

The real risk lies elsewhere though: the campaign might play into the hands of those governments wanting to acquire the equally contested, but actually existent non-autonomous armed UAVs.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Speaking for the government yesterday, Field Marshall Lord Brammall told peers: «It is unthinkable that in this day and age our democratic government should actually commit armed forces into a substantial war situation without the manifest assent of parliament.»

At trial, the government had accused the elder Skelos of strong - arming three companies with a stake in state legislation — a major real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — into giving his son about $ 300,000 through consulting work, a no - show job and a payment of $ 20,000.

The 1999 Constitution in section 162 (1) establishes a pool of revenue belonging to all three levels of government, federal, state and local government, called the Federation Account, «into which shall be paid ALL revenues collected by the Government of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the Ministry or department of government charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abugovernment, federal, state and local government, called the Federation Account, «into which shall be paid ALL revenues collected by the Government of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the Ministry or department of government charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abugovernment, called the Federation Account, «into which shall be paid ALL revenues collected by the Government of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the Ministry or department of government charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, AbuGovernment of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the Ministry or department of government charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abugovernment charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja».

The government's policy towards the Israeli incursion into Gaza was in danger of falling apart on Tuesday night in the wake of the surprise resignation of the Foreign Office minister Sayeeda Warsi and a demand by Nick Clegg that Britain immediately suspend arms export licences to Israel.

Describing the engagement of the two countries as very cordial, Colonel Brillisauer stated that the German government is ever ready and willing to improve on the existing relationship by wading into the current needs of the Nigerian Armed Forces in the ongoing war on terrorism which is different from other form of previous bilateral relation.

All New Yorkers who are sick and tired of the way our state government works — or doesn't work — have to hope so and believe that a determined new governor armed with an electoral mandate can at least throw a scare into these smug sovereigns of the Legislature.

Commending the Nigerian Army for responsively keying into the federal government policy of research, innovation and ensuring a politically stable nation, he said the present administration has given priority to research development through enactment of realistic policies that will re-position the armed forces towards attaining excellence.

The petitioners noted that government's inaction with regards to several warning signals and reliable information resulted into armed bandit attacks on Maganda District, killing nine vigilantes / volunteers on the 20th of March 2018.

«Finally, to ensure that the preparation of the Appropriation Bill is based on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, passed by the National Assembly, signed into law by the President and implemented by the Executive arm of government Section 51 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act has specifically clothed every citizen with the necessary locus standi or legal capacity to enforce the provisions of the law by obtaining prerogative orders or other remedies at the Federal High Court, without having to show any special particular interest.»

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

«He's an evil genius, kind of like a Bond villain, but also a gourmet chef,» Gibson said, adding some extra descriptors to his role as an arms dealer looking to launch a weapon into space, to the obvious disagreement from the U.S. government who hires Machete (Trejo) to stop him.

In fact, they encourage the sale of drugs and arms because it's putting money into the hands of powerful cartels that will hopefully overthrow the communist governments of these countries — a goal in America's best interests.

Race to the Top states are having differing degrees of success with what has turned out to be one of the toughest tasks required by the Obama administration's marquee competitive - grant program: crafting new teacher evaluations that take student performance into account, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office, Congress» investigative arm.

Meanwhile, the long arm of the federal government is reaching into schools with the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

One must remember that this was a time of desperation, when most able - bodied men had been taken into the armed forces, and a great many experimental ideas were proposed by the Churchill government.

In 2004, the SFO started an investigation into suspected accounting irregularities relating to BAE and a government to government deal struck in 1985: Britain signed the Al - Yamamah arms for oil deal with Saudi Arabia, the biggest ever UK export contract involving the sale of 120 Tornado fighter jets.

Having driven Bombardier into the arms of Boeing's biggest competitor, Boeing (still denying it is a subsidy junkie) calls it a «questionable deal between two heavily state - subsidized competitors to skirt the recent findings of the U.S. government.»

As citizens we need to demand that government take significant steps to put into place accountability measures to ensure that everyone who operates as an information provider, a researcher, a statistician or a watchdog are able to operate at full arms length from the influence of government.