"Successive governments" refers to a series of different governments or administrations that have taken charge one after the other, often belonging to different political parties or leaders.
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The failure
by successive governments to build new homes has grossly distorted property prices and caused a crisis that has hit both poor and middle class households alike.
More significantly, and despite the very hard efforts
of successive governments, it also retains a broader range of political opinion, more reflective of the country at large.
This number has grown in recent years
as successive governments have increased the influence of religious groups in the state - funded education system.
The former education minister said that for
successive governments there had been a «lack of political will to show that some academies are not doing well».
It is the failure
of successive governments to build enough affordable housing, and the failure of bosses to pay living wages to their employees.
Little priority has been given
by successive governments to address the conflicts and issues that surround town and rural life and the complications of integrating into a wider economic community.
The object of the war against corruption, in which
successive governments in the country profess themselves to be engaged, needs to be clearly stated and constantly...
This, he largely attributed to things that are happening in the spiritual realm of
which successive governments have no idea about to find an antidote to it.
Many of these communities are often highly heterogeneous, comprising several Indigenous families, clans or language groups with few traditional ties, whose genesis stemmed
from successive government policies over many decades which led to many Indigenous groups moving from their traditional lands.
The Chief of Tokali, Naa Walamani Danyagiri who chaired the function regretted that the tourism sector has not been given the needed attention for it to grow
saying successive governments have only paid lip - service to the sector.
«Primarily because of grand corruption under
successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»
Nadine Dorries has hit out at the
way successive governments have handled the abortion issue, suggesting parliament never really has a free vote on the issue.
Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by
successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.
Given the restrictions placed by
successive governments on the foulard (headscarf) and the burka, together with the large French Muslim population (around 10 % of the 64 million total), the country would seem to have been fertile ground for fundamentalist anger and terrorist outrages.
And so, after
seeing successive governments window dress on measures to tackle inequality, Walker agreed to lead the WEP, set up by comedian and writer Sandi Toksvig and journalist Catherine Mayer in March of last year.
The extent to which a federal government promise or social covenant to veterans to care for them and their families in the event of death or injury
binds successive governments will be tested in a class action suit hoping to move forward for court certification in mid-2014.
Her concerns come just weeks after the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo expressed her anger
at successive governments for not placing priority on the judiciary in terms of funding.
Observers have
criticized successive governments of lacking the political will to pass the Bill, and these concerns were highlighted by a former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, who suggested that Mr. Mensah - Bonsu obstructed the passage of the Bill at the tail end of the Mahama administration.
Efforts being put in this year come
after successive governments failed to save the steelworks in Redcar, Teesside, after Tata initially stopped production in 2009.
Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that
successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.
Although I support the intention of the Bill and the immediate steps that it takes, the Government need rapidly to revisit the conventions and means by which
successive Governments address the central problem of increasing life expectancy and the effect of that on the Exchequer and those working to fund it.
Lawyer for the plaintiff, Hon. Alexander Afenyo Markins, speaking to journalists after the hearing said the ruling will serve as a legal precedent for
successive governments so they don't delay the formation of governing boards for institutions.
The RTI bill, which is expected to make information easily accessible by the media and Ghanaians to boost the fight against corruption has been in legislation for well over 17 years now
because successive governments have failed to implement it despite several assurances.
Unfortunately, for nearly two decades, the real value of this fund has not increased in any significant way, as
successive governments decided to use the royalty revenues to fund current spending, not to invest for tomorrow.
Known as the «X case,» the decision sparked an ongoing debate about how to interpret the legislative mandate from the court,
with successive governments reluctant to touch the issue for fear of upsetting the public.
The strategy promised far reaching changes for our maternity services, and not a moment too soon, given the lack of substantial funding for infrastructure and staffing that our maternity services have endured over the
last successive governments.
We've had the opportunity over the years to invest people in those skills, to bring people in, to train them, and
sadly successive governments have decided they need to cut costs in the NHS instead of putting in the investment, to save money.»
Aregbesola stated that his administration, building on the achievements of the
past successive government, had positioned the people to realise their greatest potentials by bringing them to the consciousness of who they are as Omoluabi (the virtuous people).
A second is that
successive government makeovers tend to destroy the very statistical evidence on which those makeovers can be judged, for example in making it impossible even for experts to say whether «running costs» have changed or simply been reclassified (the classic «Sir Humphrey» method of reducing administration cost figures).
«Great Ghanaian leader John Agyekum Kufour, it was in his time that the financing for this project was secured as far back as 2008; unfortunately after he left it took five years under the governance of
NDC successive government before the construction of the project,» he claimed.
Ahead of Monday's eurogroup meeting meeting, finance minister Euclid Tskalotos warned darkly of the perils involved in demanding yet more cuts of a nation whose economy has shrunk by more than 25 % in the six years since
successive governments began slashing budgets in return for bailout aid.
Successive governments relying on an overheated financial sector; presiding over a wildly imbalanced economy where the gap between rich and poor grew; where the North fell further and further behind the South.
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If successive governments were required to cut UK emissions by at least three per cent every year, it would ensure that global warming was at the heart of every policy and fast track Britain towards a low - carbon economy.»