Sentences with phrase «much about the government»

It changed so much about my government outreach work and my practice of law.

Instead of worrying so much about the government, let's just concentrate in keeping our eyes in God and we will see the Glory of His name.

Sustainable chocolate is as much about governments creating an enabling policy environment and enforcing legislation, NGOs creating awareness and consumers making sustainable choices, as it is about industry commitment and investment.

Since you seem to know so much about government, why do you enlighten the rest of us about EXACTLY what the duties of appointments office are these days?

Now I understand why people whinge so much about the government!

When I was 16, I am ashamed to say, I did not know much about the government or the cost of living.

Not exact matches

But if that is too much power for governments to yield, then a neutral body could at least identify threats and offer neutral advice on what to do about them.

If the government is set on making taxes fairer, it needs to be much clearer about what it means

Analysts said they weren't reading too much into what they described as a «backward - looking indicator» and were hopeful about the economic prospects given an upturn in recent indicators such as confidence and machinery orders, not to mention efforts by Japan's new government to revive growth.

And one would guess that so much direct experience of Putin and Sechin will leave very little room for illusions about the nature of Russia's government, how much it resents American pre-eminence, and how far it will go to undermine it.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

There has been much debate about how blockchain could solve this problem, but a recent Newsweek report detailing the example of a home title being issued on the Ethereum blockchain showed a solution: It's only a matter of time, the article said, before government agencies start embracing blockchain as a valid alternative to existing title processes.

The federal government's recent decision to block the takeover of Potash Corp. by Australian mining company BHP Billiton has sparked much debate about which types of Canadian industries should be protected from foreign buyers.

Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

It was about what the government's size should be, how much deficits matter in tough economic times, and about looking good to the respective constituencies.

They also need to ask themselves hard questions about their government's fiscal policy, including why their country continues to spend so much money on defence.

The agreement is expected to save Ontario's electricity system about $ 70 million in costs over the seven years, but the two government's cited «commercial sensitivities» for refusing to say how much Ontario will pay for the electricity.

The government keeps gushing about how much tax revenue they're collecting.

Foreign visitors to the Reserve Bank over the years have tended to raise questions about household debt much more frequently than they have raised questions about government debt.

And instead of offering condolences, he reminded Puerto Rico about how much money it was costing the federal government to respond to the crisis.

Had he mined and refined his insight about outsourcing, he might have realized how much America's post-1970 political decay owes to the ongoing explosion in what public administration scholar Donald Kettl has termed «government by proxy.»

The fallout from the story concerning Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, the misuse of personal data and how much Facebook knew about all this, has quickly made its way into the halls of government — and with it Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of invitations in his inbox.

This is the same criticism made in Stephen Gordon's comments about attributing all job growth over the past eight years to the Conservative government: Much of this growth would have happened under most alternative policy scenarios.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

Assuming that the total amount of bad debt in the banking system exceeds total bank capital — something which is almost certainly true — the conversion of debt which can not be serviced into an equity position that is unlikely to generate much more (and in an economic downturn, which is when we are most concerned about the debt burden, we can assume that the decline in value of these equity positions will be highly correlated) leaves the net indebtedness of the banking system unchanged, and so the contingent liabilities of the government are unchanged even as reported debt in the system declines.

Despite all their boasting about being good fiscal managers and the evils of accumulating debt, the Conservative government doesn't seem to really care that much about reducing debt.

«There are certainly things that are illegal content, so that is more of an area where talking about regulations could make sense, but so much of what comes up in general discussion about this is out of reach of government action from the get - go.»

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

You can say the same about Bitcoin and pretty much any sovereign government on Earth.

Kenneth G. Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and former director of the New York Stock Exchange, helped fund Maurice R. Greenberg's lawsuit against the United States government over the bankruptcy of the American International Group, which was viewed as being as much as about money as about principle.

The Opposition can complain about it, but it has no power to make the government listen, much less change its mind on anything.

On the other hand, banks, pension funds, and others don't have much choice about government bonds.

I believe Susan was making a statement about the Wildrose party that they seem to say that pretty much the government should get out of the way of the oil companies and let them do whatever they want and we should be grateful when they do something nice for Alberta.

Prosecutors said in an indictment that Worrall tipped Blaszczak about upcoming decisions from CMS, which decides how much government insurance programs will reimburse healthcare companies.

And so for example, if you look at U.S. government debt, which is the one almost everyone always talks about, most people aren't sitting there worrying about how much debt does Amazon have, when you look at government debt, interest payments on government debt as a percent of GDP or as a percent of tax revenue, currently because interest rates are relatively low, are very low, are running half, literally half of what they were in the second half of the»80s and the first half of the»90s.

It also means that there is no government or central entity to make discretionary decisions about how much currency to create or attempt to defend it through monetary policy actions.3

The February 2018 budget is expected to reveal much about the taxation framework needed to fund the government's vision for British Columbia.

Trump can't do much about the $ 75 billion the government owes Wall Street creditors on his own; it's possible that the federal government could pay off some of it, but a massive bailout won't go over well in Congress.

«There's no question that Canadian corporate buyers — and I'd actually say government buyers in particular — need to become much more aggressive about trying new things and being more willing to try Canadian products and services earlier on in their cycle,» he said.

On the flip side, there have been questions about the ability of FinTech companies to penetrate an industry where customers are wary of new incumbents where government oversight is not much.

Opinion: He can start by being transparent about how much high - income Canadians actually pay in taxes and receive in government transfers

I'm not a Libertarian but even I understand the arguments and complaints about giving too much power to a government, no matter what government that may be.

Mr. Harper did not have much to say about this, except to remind everyone that his government had cut the GST and then to read a list of various industry associations who had expressed favourable sentiments about the most recent budget.

There are very few real threats that governments can do much about.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

I haven't had much to say about the partial government shutdown / debt ceiling squabble because I find it simultaneously confusing, irritating, and boring.

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

If such an institution wishes to be offensively bloody minded, there isn't» or, at least, there shouldn't be» much that an American government can do about it.

It will have been noted that in its windy statement about RE in the English baccalaureate, the CES doesn't point to RE as being a way in to religious faith: that wouldn't be of much interest to the government, of course, but it ought to be for Catholics.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.