Sentences with phrase «spending over recent decades»

The nearly quantum leap in campaign spending over recent decades, propelled especially by the use of television, has provoked a growing sense that something should be done, even if there is little agreement on what this something might be.

If that were the case, the massive amounts spent over recent decades would have given indigenous Australians the same standards of health, happiness and opportunity enjoyed by all other citizens.

Not exact matches

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

The biggest controversy in recent years has been over the term «visitation,» which has been in use for decades to describe the time that a non-custodial parent spends with the child.