Sentences with phrase «tax riots of»

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«Mr Cameron», The Financial Times reported, «is being urged to accelerate tax breaks for married couples as part of his moral clean - up of Britain following last week's riots»:

The golden - tongued presbyterpreacher of Antioch and his aged bishop Flavian co-operated in an exemplary way in this respect and notably in the crisis of 387 when, after a tax riot and the breaking of the royal statues by the populace, the whole of Antioch huddled in terror of Emperor Theodosius» wrath.

All the relevant codewords are inserted in the text, from «the lessons of the 1980s» to a dig at those nostalgics — again unnamed — who «believe that the poll tax riots and civil unrest brought down the last Tory government».

The new property tax, passed by the Greek parliament in the face of certain riots, is particularly brutal.

Tory support didn't fall below 28 % in the immediate wake of the poll tax riots.

We fought against the bankers, we stood up against the witless kneejerk populism of the Tories after the riots, we've fought against tax cuts for the rich and we came out fighting on the NHS, and I'll tell you what, we will continue the fight for our NHS.

I don't really remember the Poll Tax riots toward the tail end of Thatcher's government.

The climatic consequences of those eruptions may have helped trigger tax riots and other forms of social unrest, social scientists say.

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

The riots of the disaffected scroungers will be as nothing when compared with those of the disaffected tax - payer.

But this year, as the Germans have repeatedly rescued the Greek economy from a generation of profligacy and tax evasion, Greeks are rioting in the streets because apparently, they have to pay tax now and can't retire at 55 on full pensions anymore; some even blaming the Germans for what happened in 1942.