Sentences with phrase «over government policy»

Do foreign governments control or enjoy a preponderant influence over government policy and activities by means including the presence of foreign military troops, the use of significant economic threats or sanctions, etc..?

Government bond auctions should be permitted to fail as a means of expressing disproval over government policy choices.

Over the decades the food industry, school food service directors, farmers, and the rest of agribusiness have won many battles with nutritionists and the medical profession over government policies on what Americans should eat.

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: «I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Cabinet minister can stay in his post after being so openly defiant of the prime minister over government policy.»

Writing in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he argued the emphasis on the crisis of debt having a «strong hold over government policy» was no accident - and warned Labour needs to do more to combat it.

Amazon seems sure to sue over any government policy that seems anticompetitive or targeted at it alone.

Bitcoin acceptance in political rallies and election campaigns show that the politicians are increasingly becoming open to the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which could bear a positive effect over the government policies and regulations once they get into power.

Does the military control or enjoy a preponderant influence over government policy and activities, including in countries that nominally are under civilian control?

In a recent ComRes poll conducted exclusively for Total Politics, fully 50 per cent of the public said the Lib Dems «seem to have almost no influence over government policy» and only one - third disagreed.

In exchange for confidence - and - supply support, a minor party would expect some influence over government policy, which is usually announced in a Queen's speech at the opening of parliament.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

In this way, he could have exerted just as much influence over government policy, his integrity would have remained intact and there would almost certainly be substantially more Lib Dem MPs than there are in parliament today.

But Cameron couldn't stomach the thought of a backbencher having influence over Government policy, even one as minor as circus animals — though a ban has 92 per cent public support.

An exclusive ComRes poll in the June issue of Total Politics found that 50 % of the public believe the Liberal Democrats have «almost no influence over government policy».

Seeking greater influence over government policy, Idechong campaigned for and was elected to Palau National Congress in 2000, where he served for the next 12 years.