Sentences with phrase «take over government from»

It would be recalled that shortly after independence, the leadership of Nigeria was accused of corruption before the first Military Coup in 1966 that eventually led to the military antic of taking over government from the civilians.

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He said that part of his administration — over which he officially has no authority after it was taken over by the Spanish national government — will now function from Brussels, the centre of the European Union.

But to the apparent surprise of the Trudeau government, and, frankly, to some of us who pay attention to these things, the opposition and the business lobby have decided to take a stand over a business owner's right to squeeze as much as he or she can from the tax system.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

For example, the cost of designing, building, launching and monitoring the government's Landsat satellite, which takes pictures of Earth from 480 miles up, is over $ 1 billion, according to the United States Geological Survey, which administers data from the satellite.

Westpac struck similar deals in Adelaide and Launceston, where it took over state - of - the - art Ansett call centres and received financial support from the respective State governments.

In certain cases, unscrupulous politicians from the north took over southern state governments during Reconstruction, issued bonds and made off with the proceeds.

Take government - owned sovereign wealth funds for example: Over $ 5 trillion is invested in global capital markets from SWF's coming directly from oil - producing nations.

It's a lawyer from outside of government named by the attorney general to take over an investigation that poses a conflict of interest for the Justice Department.

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets.

The mixed messages from the data make any policy tweaks particularly sensitive - especially as China puts the finishing touches to a government transition that began in November and is set to be sealed by March 17 with Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang taking over as president and premier, respectively.

When he took over in 2006, his government inherited a trend line.According to Statistics Canada, manufacturing employment in Canada grew in the late 1990s, then stagnated from 2001 to 2004, before a «clear downward trend» began around 2005.

Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.

It would be far better for the government to step in and take over mortgages from families, so that they could stay in their homes with greater certainty through this period of turmoil.

Though it's earmarked for retirement, the government allows you to take money from your RRSP penalty - free to buy your first house or fund your education, as long as you return the money into your account over the course of a fifteen year payback period.

Companies like Caterpillar earn billions in revenue from Canadian resource developments. Yet Caterpillar is under no compulsion to produce anything in Canada. To the contrary, our governments gave Caterpillar carte blanche to take over and then shut down important productive assets. They will continue to supply our resource projects from outside the country, unless and until we implement a strategy to enhance our capacity to do this important, valuable work ourselves.

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

Whether that's this year in 2018 or 2019, I don't know, but I do know that over the next 3 years this big reversal that we talk about in the paper is going to unfold and is going to take away all the options from the governments that have fiat currencies.

We expect earnings growth to take over from multiple expansion as a driver of returns, and the decline in risk premia to largely be offset by a rise in underlying government bond yields.

Program trading, as it was called, began to take over and automate the stock trading business, which, coupled with investor fears stemming from the government's intent to remove tax benefits and devalue the dollar, sparked a run on the market that no one really foresaw.

The US government says it's taking action against China over policies that have enabled Chinese firms to unfairly get their hands on sensitive technology from American companies.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

Exit West follows the lovers Saeed and Nadia, who flee their unnamed Middle Eastern city as a religious militant group takes it over from the ailing government.

Shah Jahan, famous as the builder of the Taj Mahal, was emperor from 1038 until 1070 (A.D. 1628 - 59), when the control of the government was taken over by his son Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors, who died in 1119 (A.D. 1707).

«Hi, I'm from the government, and if you don't teach your children that sodomy is normal, and withhold from them the knowledge that sodomy is responsible for spreading a deadly disease all over the world that has killed millions of people, we'll shut this school down, and maybe we'll take your kids from you»

To prevent the government from taking over the church or restricting worship practices.

To protest ourselves from the government which would over-tax us, over regulate us and take away our liberties.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

You can just say something is false, you have to back up your opinions with reasons And actually separation of church and state was designed to protect the government from taking over the church, not to keep the church out of the government

Copts were needed to staff the government bureaucracy, which the caliphs largely took over from the Byzantine government.

OMG, this nitwit takes money from the billionaire Koch Brothers, who want to take over the federal government, so they can get more rich, and more powerful, while running around using Christianity as their sounding board.

I wish I could communicate to you the pain that many Mormons feel when we hear our beliefs mocked, from people saying we wear «magic underwear» to people claiming that Mormons are plotting to take over the government of the United States.

«It was Coke that took the Northern Territory government to court over their introduction of a container deposit scheme, and in documents from global Coca - Cola they make it clear opposing container deposit schemes is something every country should push for.»

Entitled «Transforming School Food: A National Gathering of Peers and Partners Taking on School Food Change,» the conference will draw over 160 school food service professionals and community organizations from over forty large school districts, as well as government agency partners and funders.

It follows an announcement last year in which the government said that from April 2015 parents will have a fully flexible choice over how they split their 52 week parental leave entitlement - other than the first fortnight, which the mother must take.

It took over a century for people like Marx to pinpoint what actually happened, from a societal pespective; People like Adam Smith had analyzed very early the economical aspect of things but didn't see how much capitalism is intertweened in the philosophy and government system.

Over its four - and - a-half years in power the government has taken a lot away from the poorest and most vulnerable in our society.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

If there is a major change in government, one political party taking over from another one, there must be issues.»

Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms over the curriculum away from academies.

At a meeting with Parliament's Government Assurance Committee over the week, Dr Donkor clarified that his deadline is «give or take» two weeks — from January 1.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

He said «as far as I know, nobody from the current Govt asked for any vehicle... Why would this government ask the previous one to procure vehicles when they were about to take over?»

The Federal Government has taken over the funding of the construction of Kishi - Kaiama road and dualization of Michael Imodu - Ganmo road in Ilorin from the state gGovernment has taken over the funding of the construction of Kishi - Kaiama road and dualization of Michael Imodu - Ganmo road in Ilorin from the state governmentgovernment.

One proposal that has taken a hit in popularity, however, is the governor's push to sue the federal government over the December federal tax reform law, which garners 49 percent support, down from 58 percent in January.

According to him, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not prepared to start from the scratch by introducing a new Presidential Candidate in the 2020 elections as the party is poised to take over power from Nana Akufo - Addo's government in 2020.

He said, «We will use local, state and federal power to take over Ekiti from a rapacious government being run by a brigand in Ekiti.

The Government leadership in the House of Lords has also seen changes, with Baroness Evans of Bowes Park taking over from Baroness Stowell as Leader of the Lords.

Several MPs have taken to Twitter in support of Baroness Warsi after she resigned from the Government over the crisis in Gaza.

The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has accused the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo, of peddling falsehood about the state of the economy he inherited from the previous administration According to Kofi Adams, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government took over the most stable economy of any administration in the fourth republic.