Sentences with phrase «return to government last»

He admitted that he had been surprised as the rest of the Labour party when Gordon Brown asked him to return to government last October.

Not exact matches

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

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).

After two years of contraction, Russian GDP returned to growth of 1.5 percent last year on the back of higher oil prices, still short of a government target of 2 percent.

Last time around, the reaction to the wave of deportations preempted the Iraqi government and the Obama administration halting the forcible return of Iraqis to their native land.

It is likely that many centrist votes captured by Yesh Atid in 2013 are returning to the traditional home of the left, which last headed a government in 2001.

Cynthia Nixon and her wife Christine Marinoni earned a combined $ 619,799 in 2017, paying $ 196,375 in taxes to the federal government last year and $ 40,272 in state taxes, according to her returns made publicly available to reporters on Friday in Albany.

Looking at these results, one could argue that the British voters decided at the very last moment to prevent the formation of another coalition government, assumingly returning to their traditional attitude of regarding coalitions as an exception.

Mind you, there are dissenters - NS political editor Martin Bright told last weekend's Progress conference that Lord Mandelson's return to government was «impressive», but he «could still end up being Labour's Sarah Palin».

Umahi, who received some stakeholders of Abakaliki Local Government Area in his office in Abakaliki on Wednesday, said he was happy that those of them that worked for the Labour Party during the last general elections had decided to return to the PDP.

«After decades of out - of - control spending, we have in the last five years returned fiscal responsibility to Albany by capping government growth at two percent, cutting taxes, and investing in the successful programs that are rejuvenating our upstate economy.

But the truth is that Labour's newfound concern for civil liberties will last right up until the point they return to government.

Last year the Welsh Government reacted angrily when Wales Office ministers said the Silk Commission, that's looking at Welsh devolution, could follow the example of the Calman Commission in Scotland and identify areas where powers should be returned to Westminster.

The government decided to act after the supreme court ruled last year that a terror suspect accused of targeting British troops had the right to return to Britain from Turkey after being stripped of his British passport, which was awarded in 2000.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

The statement read in part: «Just when our people were about to heave a sigh of relief that peace has at last returned to our communities, murderous herdsmen on Sunday, February 11, 2018, re-enacted their blood thirsty trait when they launched an attack on Bakin Kogi in the Jema'a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

More than 20,000 prison officers returned to work last night after the government agreed to fresh talks over pay.

Clinton returns to Washington, and to the scene of her last government job, for the ceremonial opening next week of a new exhibition and museum area at the State Department that will be partly named for her.

Reflecting on his own return to government, Mandelson said: «When the prime minister asked me to return to the cabinet last year I felt a lot of things: shock, surprise, apprehension.

It is true that defence spending declined under John Major's government which drew up the plan to close all the Service hospitals and then proceeded to do so; this continued under New Labour until the last one was shut about a year ago with the consequence that wounded servicemen returning from combat are now sent to NHS hospitals, usually in Birmingham where some have been abused by disaffected Muslims.

Figures released today show that only 1,362 young people out of the 3,349 who joined Jobs Growth Wales have gained a job in the last six months, with the remainder either unemployed or returning to training, despite being classed as «Job Ready» by the government.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The government's prize witness at the bribery trial of a longtime top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has returned to the witness stand after being arrested last week.

The Conservatives will want to paint their own narrative of the last Labour government, of reckless spending pushing the country to the verge of bankrupcy, and have had some success in doing so: 60 % think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % that if Labour returned to government they'd put the country into even more debt.

«I make no apology for returning to the implications for community cohesion and local government of sharia courts in the UK, a matter on which the new Minister quite properly opined last weekend and which we discussed yesterday.

When he resigned last year after revelations about his private life and associated use of parliamentary expenses it was hoped that he might make a swift return to the government frontbench.

Last month Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, said the net migration target was «not sensible» because it hinged on factors largely beyond the Government's control - such as EU migration and Britons leaving or returning to the UK.

He said both men were determined to ensure there is no return to the «bad old days» of vicious Blair - Brown feuds that scarred the last Labour Government.

Nearly 800 Cleveland schoolchildren returned to religious schools at government expense last week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an injunction that had barred new participants from the city's controversial voucher program.

I claimed my non custodial grandaughter as my dependent last year and this year, I also had medical coverage through the year - so I owe nothing to the government and was waiting a refund, after I filed my tax returned on Feb and checked the status of my refund the IRS accepted my return but last time I check the refund status surprisingly I get a notice with code number 151.

According to the CRA, 8.6 per cent of Canadians who filed their tax returns last year did so after the April 30 deadline, triggering penalties, interest and in Schaefer's case, warning letters, phone calls and even his missing returns completed for him against his will by the federal government agency.

The $ 102,000 investment in a four - year college yields a rate of return of 15.2 percent per year — more than double the average return over the last 60 years experienced in the stock market (6.8 percent), and more than five times the return to investments in corporate bonds (2.9 percent), gold (2.3 percent), long - term government bonds (2.2 percent), or housing (0.4 percent).

«In the last 88 years, U.S. equities have returned 6.6 percent in real terms annually, as compared to 2.4 percent for government bonds, according to Barclays data.

Tourism based on whale shark watching has increased dramatically in the last few years and Government agencies have taken steps to protect these magnificent animals so that the species will not be harmed and so they will continue to return to Isla Mujeres area.

But it is something of a poetic about - face that an artist synonymous with the transparency of the word has spent the last few years not only returning to painting on canvas, but choosing redacted U.S. government documents as her subject.

As Robin Feldman, an influential patent scholar, wrote in the New York Times last week, patents like the one belonging to Alice Corp can result in the government handing out a powerful monopoly without receiving anything of value in return — the «inventor» gets a patent, but doesn't disclose any undiscovered science or ideas.

Many Americans got some depressing news last week; either their tax return was not as large as they had hoped or, in some cases, they were told they owed additional money to either the Federal or State government or both.