Sentences with phrase «something about the government»

There was something about a character «played by Charlize Theron, don't worry, don't worry»; something about a government operative, something about a third party.

Something about the government officials having been corrupted.

But being spitting distance from DC I do know something about the government.

Not exact matches

The decline reflects some things that are out of the government's control (international demand, the exchange rate) and some things that arguably the prime minister could do something about, namely Canada's chronic lack of competitiveness.

CF: What you said about others coming into the fray and starting to build some momentum about it, I think that does give more hope that this just won't just be something that is a transfer of dollars from the federal to provincial governments.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

ANALYSIS: Politics and business never mix well, which is something the state government is about to discover with news that former Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls is eyeing a return to his party's top job.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

As he pushes the firm further into government corridors, Barton realizes that people are leery of power that hides its face — that there's something sinister about the mysterious adviser who sits in a corner taking notes and is never introduced.

Indeed, there was something magical about the time, where a mix of national pride and a shame over Soviet advances led us to cheer on a government program that led us to dominate the USSR in the dome of heaven itself.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

If augmented reality games continue to grow in popularity as a category, there may be more pressure than ever for governments to step in and do something about the dumbest behavior this side of drinking and driving.

«The shift in perceptions about the economy is something the government can trumpet,» Abacus Chief Executive Officer David Coletto 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.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

It was a direct signal to Canadians that the government was worried about a housing collapse that would damage the economy in a similar way to the US collapse in 2008; something the Bank of Canada is still worried about today.

The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan in B.C., who promised in the election last summer to try to stop the project.

They built popular products, scaled up quickly, then dared governments to do something about their blatant violations of numerous laws or their opportunistic use of outdated regulations.

But ahead of the report launch on 24 January 2017, I'd like to share something that I discovered while researching and talking to [business, government and social] leaders around the world about one dimension of inequality: gender.

In 2002, an Ipsos - Reid poll found that 86 per cent of Canadians believed that the federal government should do something to alleviate public concerns about media concentration.

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.

Ezra Klein: But this goes to something I think is hard for entrepreneurs, hard for the government, hard for anybody on either side of the aisle who wants to change anything, which is that people are very risk averse about their healthcare.

Diane Abbott also tweeted that one of the lessons to be learned from the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire is that «fire puts out water,» and called for the UK government to do something about the drought in the province of Davao del Norte in Indonesia, which is actually located in the Philippines.

Most people, I'd suggest, would remember Stephen Harper's years in power as angry ones — a government permanently aggrieved about something or other.

I actually think something else is going on here — rather than talking about regulating the financial sector, the government and the Bank are signaling that they are willing to provide lender - of - last - resort assurances to those who sell or engage in derivative financial products, of which the asset - back mortgage and commercial debt are but two examples.

Furthermore, they'll keep doing it unless the new government does something about grazing leases on Crown land.

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.

«Minister Moore has said this government is going to do something about domestic roaming, and he clearly meant it,» Lockie said in a statement.

North Korea has strict laws about Christian evangelism so the school doesn't teach doctrine, but does teach its students about other countries and other forms of government — something you can't get almost anywhere else in North Korea.

The truth about marriage, for example — the lifelong union of one man and one woman, open to new life and the foundation of a family — is not something that will go away simply because the government of a nation, or institutions that it funds and promotes, want it to do so.

Something about our system of government makes an average of 2,000 New Yorkers want to kill one another.

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.

But don't forget about all the liberal lazy, laiize faire dem worshippers that think the government owes them something.

It does say something about the limitations of government short of the Messianic age, and it may say something about the moral default of those in power.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

There is something perfectly Reagan-esque about a government that is at once malevolent, omnipotent, and vulnerable to the meddling of precocious children.

But to do something about this requires that we face government's economic responsibilities directly rather than cloaking them in the guise of national defense.

In other words, these lawyers and judges would agree that the government «should bear the burden of showing that there is something deeply unreasonable about the understanding [of the moral implications of contraceptive drugs] maintained by the Greens.»

Where this is the attitude, usually the people involved are those who most resent it when the government or somebody does in fact try to do something about it.

So when merchants, or philosophers, or government officials wanted to spread the news about something, they would send out a herald or an emissary to stand in a busy area of town, or walk through the streets, shouting the news.

I know it looks like they stopped teaching government in schools, but they need to do something about people's writing skills.

Amid the chaos of our postmodern politics — the turmoil of Trumpism, the government shut - downs, the multiplying divisions within parties — there is something about the permanence and stability of the old - fashioned British monarchy that American viewers find refreshing.

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

The U.S. government will take steps to do something about it within this decade.

At the same time, I suspect something about our hypothetical atheist: he would call the doctor who forbade all carpentry (as an example of splinter - causing events) cruel or inept; he would call the government which eliminated convenience stores for the sake of eliminating convenience store robbery oppressive.

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

Isaac knelt down and began to pray; he strung along, and strung along, about the heathen in distant lands, and about the sister churches, and about the state and the country at large, and about those that's in authority in the government, and all the usual programme, you know, till everybody had got tired and gone to thinking about something else, and then, all of a sudden, when nobody was noticing, he outs with a match and rakes it on the under side of his leg, and pff!

Isn't there a law or something about keeping religion out of the Federal government?

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...