Sentences with phrase «not up to the government»

It is not up to the government to raise unwanted children.

(Petoskey News, Petoskey Batman: It's not up to the government to save us)

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'» It became known as the «Frisbee speech,» and for years it gave foreign acquirers confidence the government wouldn't throw the book at them if they failed to live up to their promises.

It is up to Nevsun to make sure that it is conducting itself in the proper manner and is not complicit with any of the accusations being directed at the Eritrean government by civil society.

Do you think governments should act to make sure the Internet isn't divided up into a tiered service?

You especially see this from foreign government pension funds that are ramping up their assets to fulfill the needs for income that they're gonna have for their populations for decades to come, and they're not there.

If the Fed were monetizing the debt, then it would rip up the Treasuries it buys, so that the government doesn't have to pay them off.

The Americans stood up to the political and media bullies and voted for a president that would work for them and not the Chinese government.

Canning MHR Don Randall says residential estates and businesses in his electorate are missing out on communications infrastructure and may not receive it for up to eight years as the Gillard government presses ahead with the national broadband network.

«They either make up a program that doesn't exist, or they describe a government program and make it sound like it's their own or claim to have some special way to access it for you.»

Under such an arrangement, the government would commit to paying the shipping tolls for up to 100,000 barrels per day regardless of whether or not they actually moved that much product — it's a subscription service.

«Some of the processes tend to be centralized, and in effort to decentralize them while still retaining the integrity of an Iraqi permission [it] was tweaked by the Iraqi government, not by the strike cells, as to who's the Iraqi giving you the thumbs - up that the government has given permission,» Sofge told Business Insider.

The NDP has to decide whether it will prop up the minority Liberal government, but even if it doesn't, the provincial pension plan is likely to become a key part of the Liberals» election platform.

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

Nicole Wong, who previously served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer, said tech companies would be reluctant to create a database of jihadists videos, even if it could be kept current enough to be relevant, for fear that repressive governments would demand such set - ups to pre-screen any content they do not like.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

Government isn't working as well as it once did so «it does fall, I think, not just on business but on all other areas of society to step up,» he tells New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

A «tourism blacklist» the Chinese government set up last year to name and shame misbehaving travelers does not seem to have had an impact, the NYT reports.

Speaking of which, if the government believes the market is dramatically mis - pricing the future price of oil, should they not be buying up oil futures to provide windfall profits to taxpayers?

The rules the government has set up to protect people from companies just won't apply anymore.

Parking tickets are a big source of income for many governments, so it's not surprising to see the village attempt to force Ms. Cammelleri, and likely other drives, to pay up even though the mistake was on their part.

Without an Iraqi death certificate, relatives of the deceased can not claim compensation from the government, but to obtain one, the body must be dug up so the identity can be verified.

«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.

Government officials, while not as actively hostile to business as their fellow Greek - speakers in Athens, is not accelerating the country towards a cutting - edge future (in fact, the current administration managed to accidently blow up the country's main power plant in a massive and deadly accident last year).

So I'm certainly not anxious to see the government screw something else up, especially the best health care system in the world.

However, Morneau, who also announced the introduction of up to five weeks of parental leave for fathers or non-birth parents to encourage greater sharing of child - rearing responsibilities, did not address a question on the limits of legislation and what the government can do to address societal barriers that could contribute the gender pay gap.

Estimated at up to 120,000 in 2003 — «and not getting any smaller,» according to Trister — this backlog is responsible for the lengthy wait times at the various overseas offices where visa applicants must submit their forms to the Canadian government.

Although the United States has suggested that Cuba have failed to live up to its responsibilities to protect foreign diplomats under the Vienna Conventions, Cuban officials have emphasized that Washington has not cited any specific actions the Cuban government has failed to take toward that end.

But that form does not require Sanders to disclose the amount of savings or the kinds of investments he holds in his government retirement savings account, known as the Thrift Savings Plan — the well - regarded retirement plan, similar in many ways, to a private - sector 401 (k), that GOP hopeful Marco Rubio actually proposes opening up to other Americans.

If the financial connection to China, a country whose government typically opposes transparency and political dissent, seems problematic, Hwang isn't concerned: «If anything, we are informing the public about upcoming changes in laws as well as the decision makers behind it, emboldening affected parties to act up and speak up if necessary,» he said.

«I don't think that's about Starbucks but something else — governments, corporations, elected officials — disappointing people and not living up to their responsibilities and so people feel burnt.

Although MRR isn't part of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), or reported to a government entity, not having these numbers correctly calculated means you're lying to investors or worse - you're setting yourself up for a potential rude awakening when you've realized you've misjudged and misplanned your momentum.

Gun violence has torn up many communities across the country, mainly due to negligence on behalf of local and national government to properly regulate access to guns, ignorance to their constituents» varying situations, and willingness to take money from organizations that very clearly do not have the best intentions for the future of the United States.

It was as a result of Canadians standing up and saying they did not want to go in that direction that the Liberal government finally came to its senses and recognized the right way to go.

Excessive government debt will stifle economic growth regardless of whether its stashed in local or central government balance sheets and if a province's fiscal situation should become unsustainable — although that's not in the cards in the near future — it'll likely be up to federal government to foot the bill for a bailout.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The number of consumers who signed up for 2018 Obamacare health insurance surpassed the 1 million mark in the second - to - last week of enrollment, the government said on Wednesday, but it did not appear to be enough to grow the program.

Conservative communications pro David Sachs argued that Harper gummed up Parliament's committee process for a reason — he wanted us to believe minority governments don't work.

A federally commissioned report last year warned the government was «simply not up to the overall challenge» of fending off cyberthreats on its own and must partner with the private sector and the United States to tackle the problem.

They can't win votes saying they'll bring up the global price of crude any more than they can make the unemotional economist's argument, that anything but the most interventionist government action won't do much to help short - term job prospects.

It is not up to foreign governments to control how their citizens invest; rather, it is the responsibility of Canadian leaders.

The government followed up by making an illegal gift to American car manufacturers by saying «We're going to break international law and only give subsidies to U.S. auto companies, not foreign - owned companies in the United States.

And the government does not stand ready to back up Bitcoin exchanges that lose your money or identity to thieves.

These illogical fights with the PBO inevitably end up making the Government look like it has something to hide, has not done the analysis, and can not be trusted.

If the government in turn decides to reduce its spending or increase taxes to make up for the budget shortfall, then helicopter money isn't really helicopter money.

Detractors of paper money have always been fixated by the absence of gold to back it up, but they fail to recognize what really makes a currency accepted and secure — the government guarantee and the good sense of the sovereign not to abuse its franchise.

«The government is trying very hard to slow down the pace of the leveraging up, but they are not deleveraging.

And then there is the matter of allowing the public to assess counterparty risks building up at our insured banks after AIG sold credit protection derivatives (credit default swaps) across Wall Street that it could not pay in the crisis, forcing another massive government bailout.

However, this would mean giving up control over any EI program enhancements, which the government was not prepared to do.

The AMT hasn't been adequately adjusted to catch up with inflation for years because the government knows this is a great way to generate more tax revenue from the middle class.