Sentences with phrase «of lean government»

The Communities and Local Government Minister was mentioned during Mr Osborne's Spending Review yesterday as «the model of lean government» for the savings he has managed in his department.

«The tubby Communities Secretary had been dubbed the «model of lean government» as the Chancellor unveiled his latest round of spending cuts earlier this week.

The high number of appointments has caused a huge public outcry with many describing it as being in sharp contrast with President Akufo - Addo's promise of lean government and protection for the public purse.

It is not a better Ghana when instead of lean government; we have lean kenkey at a higher price,» Nana Addo gleefully jabbed.

But poor Eric Pickles, despite being one of the ten - per centers, was merely rewarded with a recycling of a very old joke, with George Osborne describing the rotund Communities Secretary — with underserved satisfaction — as the «the model of lean government.»

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The Montreal Economic Institute, a right - leaning think tank, also points out that the total annual pay to the top 100 CEOs, at slightly under $ 1 billion total, is tiny compared to the size of the economy overall and in comparison to the size of the federal government.

The left - leaning think tank wants Canadian businesses and the federal government to put up $ 670 million each a year to create new jobs, internships and training positions that would guarantee employment to those under the age of 25.

Cyber security is «very high on the agenda» for the right - leaning government, but also for the broad selection of Danish political parties negotiating a new defence strategy for the coming six years, he said.

Which way you lean in this Presidential campaign depends a lot on whether you think government spending is capable of doing any good, or whether it is by its nature obstructionist.

Lee's own expansion plans are creating too many jobs, and his government leans heavily on Singaporeans to limit the size of their families through an array of financial disincentives such as progressively higher hospital fees for each successive baby.

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Our Government recognizes the value of a lean, competent and committed public service.

In the longer term, we expect the Macron administration will likely position itself as a continuation of the previous government of Francois Hollande, yet with a more pro-investment and slightly more right - wing leaning.

While Quebec, historically more likely to claim provincial independence on issues involving the federal government, leans toward the right of provincial governments to stop pipelines from being built through their jurisdiction, the rest of the country is more federally inclined.

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The Chinese government has pledged to overhaul the state - owned enterprise (SOE) sector, and SOEs that remain standing in the wake of these reforms will be leaner, more technologically advanced and financially sound entities.

Views on the fairness of the government's proposals are also correlated with the political leanings of individual business owners.

A number of commentators, led by the right - leaning C.D. Howe Institute think tank, have argued the government should scale back CMHC's role in the mortgage - insurance market.

With its leaning toward government - backed issues, BND's yield of 4.4 % is just slightly greater than the 3.6 % being paid by the iShares Lehman 7 - 10 Year Treasury Index (NYSE: IEF).

Sounding yet again like a cheerleader for opponents of Alberta's energy industry, Notley, head of the left - leaning NDP government, reacted positively to U.S Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton's surprise announcement that she's opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf.

The news of this relatively advanced start date for negotiations increased speculation the UK government was leaning toward a settlement that prioritized a clean break with the EU, rather than one that maintained the country's access to the EU's single market.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

Studies that appear to refute claims of increasing inequality receive prominent endorsements on editorial pages and are eagerly cited by right - leaning government officials.

We should observe that this was an unprecedentedly lean doctrine of civil government.

But then some surprises: Canada, whose government led by Steven Harper has been backing away from the previous government's commitment to Kyoto, began publicly leaning toward the U.S. position; and then, to the embarrassment of the Kyoto group, Japan, home country of the treaty and of course a signatory to it, joined the United States and Canada in looking favorably on the voluntary approach.

Famously, when a left «leaning government was elected in 1948, it felt obliged to send the Pope a message assuring him that it wished only «to repose at the feet of your holiness.»

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

Regardless of your political leanings there are some basic facts to consider regarding the role of any good government, especiallly our own.

This week, Beef Products Inc. announced the temporary shutdown of three of its four plants that produce an inexpensive, chemically treated recovered beef product the government calls «lean finely textured beef» but opponents have dubbed «pink slime.

In the end analysis, the elimination of this much vilified product will result in less lean offerings at much higher prices to consumers, including the taxpayer who ultimately foots the bill for school lunches and other government procurement.

Left leaning media like the idea of Basic Income, even though it is clearly an unrealistic policy and don't call the supporters of the idea populists, on the other hand TeaParty movement which advocates for lowering taxes and limiting government intrusion in life of citizens is described as populist.

The results seem to substantiate the arguments of those who said Ed Miliband's decision to back government cuts would alienate his own support while failing to win the backing of Tory - leaning voters.

Osborne's recent reminder that the conservative party would raise the inheritance tax threshold to # 2 million given half a chance should remind anyone leaning towards the Cameron posse of exactly what everyone with estates under that value can expect from a tory government - zilch.

Price of cocoa bean during the major or lean season remain same with government making some loses during the lean season because of bean quality.

A left - leaning coalition - formal or informal - will have around five parties, with deep splits over single market membership and free movement, and with the SNP existentially needing to portray Westminster (especially a Labour government in Westminster) as being out of touch with Scotland.

But Democrat Lew Fidler has earned the trust of his community in this conservative leaning South Brooklyn district through his long track record of putting government to work for the people and advocating for seniors, students and taxpayers.»

His budget will provide a leaner, more efficient state government and a climate that will attract and maintain businesses and jobs in Westchester and the rest of the state.»

The ad splices footage from Cuomo's gubernatorial announcement speech during which he said things like «we're tired of seeing New Yorkers victimized by government corruption in Albany» with a clip of him leaning over to kiss Silver on the cheek at an undated state Democratic Party event.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

It was banned by Tony Blair's government in 2004 but has been at the forefront of campaigns by Conservative - leaning pressure groups including the Countryside Alliance.

We have socialist or communist leaning governments in many states (Venezuela, Spain, France, over 1/2 of Israeli history, many Arab states just as random examples).

No matter what your leanings are, right, left or otherwise - government is in place to do for people what they can not do for themselves for a myriad of reasons.

Ed Balls As Balls prepares his pout with as much relish and calculation as he would a put - down of the government's budget, or when preparing a strategic lasagne, we can only hope for poor Harriet Harman's sake that he'll lean in just left of centre.

But, again, this disenfranchisement has been largely a bipartisan matter persisting across changes in the political leanings of the ruling governments over time.

It is difficult to assign a partisan slant to these instances of disenfranchisement because, regardless of who instituted them in the first place, they tend to persist across left leaning and right leaning governments over time.

«But (he) does note that Erie County government is already lean and has one of the lowest tax rates» in New York state, the spokesman wrote in an email response.

«We enjoin INEC to remain neutral, independent and unbiased and allow all potential voters in the 774 local government areas in the Country irrespective of their political leaning, gender, tribe or religion to participate in the forthcoming Continous Voters Registration Exercise.

A Washington, D.C. - based group dedicated to producing Democratic - run state capitals has become the latest advocate to lean on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help his party take control of the fractured, fractious State Senate — and to thus make New York only the seventh state in the nation with a solid - blue government.

Jimi's problem has no doubt been worsened by the very «lean» government of the All Progressive Congress (APC), at the State and federal levels.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.