Sentences with phrase «last thing the government»
«The last thing this government wants is to appear antagonistic to the United States.
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«It is time for working families to be a top priority, not made the last thing governments think about in trade disputes,» he said.
«After a decade in which we have seen our politicians and officials caught up in the woeful abuses of the «war on terror», the last thing the government should be seeking is to sweep all of this under the carpet.
The Savings Gateway is a ludicrous scheme: the last thing the government should be doing now and for the next two years is borrowing more money to encourage and reward saving.
People don't have money and the last thing government would want to do in a New Year is to increase the prices of petroleum products.
His main aim was to avoid annoying voters ahead of June 23; the last thing the Government needs is for the referendum to become an opportunity for voters to kick an unpopular administration.»
«Whistleblowers are an invaluable resource for weeding out waste, fraud and abuse - the last thing the government should be doing is paying the legal fees of contractors who've retaliated against whistleblowers,» McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement.»
Not exact matches
As Airbnb's San Francisco lawsuit demonstrated, the last thing on - demand companies want is the government interfering with their business models.
In it, Mackey said the last thing the U.S. needed was «a massive new health - care entitlement,» and called for «less government control and more individual empowerment.»
LAST October, the WA Government introduced the Financial Relations Agreement Bill which, among other things, introduced the levying of stamp duty on GST - inclusive property transactions.
«There is a definitive shift toward finding ways to make things more efficient and longer - lasting,» says Panteva, who notes that government programs such as Energy Star are also helping drive consumer demand for eco-friendly products.
But the last thing I want to do is send more money to the federal government.
And, if there's one thing that's certain, it's that we'll need to really hold the government's feet to the fire and make clear where Canadians stand if we're to deliver the lasting changes we need.
The last thing Wall Street wants is for the government to change its behavior.
Depending on how you count these things, this is either the third or fifth return - to - balance projection the government has offered in the last three years (first 2013 - 2014, then 2014 - 2015, then 2015 - 2016, then back to 2014 - 2015 and now back to 2015 - 2016).
It is also not beyond the realm of conceivability that the current Trudeau government in Canada, which promised electoral reform in its last campaign, would consider such a thing.
«I'm not a partisan actor, but I actually think this is the worst thing that the Harper government has done for Canada,» the former co-chief executive of RIM said in an interview after studying large sections of the 6,000 - page document, released to the public last week.
«The key point is that if the private sector is deleveraging, the last thing you want is for the government to cut its budget deficit,» he says.
Prime Minister Najib Razak was the best thing going for the ruling coalition in Malaysia's last elections, but he's a hindrance this time because of financial scandals and government policies blamed for a rising cost of living.
But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.
The last thing the Canadian government should be doing right now is targetting fiscal surpluses.»
The last thing the Canadian government should be doing right now is targeting fiscal surpluses.»
While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.
When I retire I also expect my income to be A LOT higher than it is now despite being retired, so the last thing I want is for the government to be able to tax more money at an even higher rate later on!!!
It seems that, among other things, some conspiracy of computer masters has already established a world government, setting the stage for the very last days.
He said: «The reality is that if we debated this last week, the Government would have been unable to tell us exactly what it was going to do and the difficult reality would have been that we would have all been floundering around thinking very different things about what the Government had in mind.
Jesus thus was assigned by God, a work of preaching about «the kingdom of God» (Matt 24:14), a heavenly government that God designed immediately after Adam's rebellion in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:15) and built, becoming operational in 1914, at which time began the «last days» (2 Tim 3:1) of this wicked «system of things.»
My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...
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«Most extraordinary of all, the two great achievements of British diplomacy of the last decades in Europe, supported by Governments both Labour and Conservative, — namely the Single Market and European Enlargement — are now apparently the two things we most regret and want to rid ourselves of!
But given how catastrophically off track the government's plans have gone in the last three years, it would be irresponsible to set out those fiscal rules two years in advance, banking on things turning out in line with government forecasts.
«We are a unified team of elected officials, and we will continue to work together to address the urgent problems facing working families, and to restore confidence in the ability of government to get things done and deliver lasting results.»
Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.
She demanded May «assure us she and the secretary of state for education won't put personal reputations and ambition above doing the right thing for the country» and branded the last week «shambolic for the government but much worse for everyone else».
If you think about ministers in this government and the last one who survived over doing things which were far worse, it ought to add a sense of perspective.
My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.
Cabinet minister Francis Maude has said that although the Government is doing all it can to keep up fuel supplies, alternative plans using military personnel are being put in place because «the last thing the country needs is (to be) brought to a standstill by irresponsible union action»
«The Syrian situation poses two conflicting goals: to allow the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government to go unanswered would encourage the Assad regime, and other rogue governments, to use them again, but the last thing America needs or wants is a protracted conflict in the Middle East when our primary focus must be on jobs, the economy and the middle class.
Our children are going to have to pay higher taxes for years as a result of irresponsible spending by the last government - and in case you think I'm biased - I was a card carrying Labour party member until I found out how much we are in debt due to overspending on such things as CTF.
No one would dispute the idea that civil servants do need to be accountable for their actions, but equally the last thing we want to see is government ministers evading their responsibilities by blaming others.
12) Ditto the last for all neighborhood associations everywhere who hustle taxpayer jacked real estate and housing deals instead of concentrating on things such as crime, clean streets, good government and putting the heat on ghetto grocery stores.
Yet, given that Balls has said similar things in the past and is silent on whether the last government spent too much, it seems a relatively mild contrition.
In response to last week's natural gas pipeline explosion in Allentown, Pa., City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) touted legislation Tuesday that he and his colleagues in government were writing to prevent the same thing from happening in western Queens, statewide and nationally.
As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, it is clear that the last thing Cuomo wanted to do was run for reelection at a time when his constituents are being asked to pay higher taxes — even if the federal government is the culprit.
Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif hammered the message into POLITICO New York, saying his party will grow its Senate majority this year as «the last thing anyone wants is our entire state government controlled by Mayor de Blasio and the New York City Democrats.»
«The British government, having drifted for the best part of year, has within the last 48 hours done several sensible things - the HBOS - Lloyds merger.
Believed to harbor presidential ambitions, the governor will need a solid record to run on — which is precisely why he has been systematically trying to restore confidence and functionality to government in Albany the last four years by publicly being the adult in the room but privately using the full power of the office behind closed doors to force and cajole a stubborn Legislature into doing things on his terms.
But actually in the last Labour government, increasing maternity leave, rights at work, introducing the national minimum wage disproportionately helped women and children, child poverty targets — things like that delivered actually tangible changes to peoples» lives.
«The last thing hardworking taxpayers want is an all - Democrat, all - New York City run state government free to push their liberal tax - and - spend agenda on the people of New York,» Skelos said this morning.
A partner at the firm Robert Meakin commented: «With the economy already struggling with the uncertainty of Brexit, the last thing we need is further confusion and delay in the Government's investment strategy.»