Sentences with phrase «time governments sat»

Quite frankly its about time governments sat up and took the videogame industry seriously.

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Backbench Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg told The Times it would be «foolish» to approve a higher financial settlement for the EU, and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith urged the government to «sit tight» as the situation had tipped Brexit negotiation into chaos.

In TMM's opinion watching the banking sector explode into a flaming wreck is not something the government will sit by and watch idly and the last time we heard of Wenzhou SME's blowing up, credit loosening was not far behind.

Although intended to be an annual get - together, the last time the heads of the three governments sat...

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

No, never and at no time was greater internal damage done to Christianity than in these fourteen years when a party, theoretically Christian, sat with those who denied God in one and the same Government.

As he drove us around in his new van, showing us government buildings, markets, and recommended restaurants, I sat next to him and soon discovered that he had played linebacker for a North Carolina college, had sold time - shares when he returned to Nassau, and then became an entrepreneur — a very capable independent guide.

We can not sit back and silently assume others, including the government, have our best interests, so now is the time to have an opinion and be heard.

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labour.

The political ideology of the people who sat on the left were more liberal which at the time tended to mean anti monarchy, pro democracy, pro free trade and in America it meant smaller federal government and stronger states rights.

This morning, Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, was arrested on corruption charges, hours after the Times broke the story — and barely half a day after Silver sat smiling onstage as Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his 2015 State of the State address and was featured by the governor in humorous slides as one of the «Three Amigos» atop state government.

The final day the Commons sits before a Christmas or summer recess is always a busy day for political journalists, thanks to the large number of government announcements made at those times.

«Over time, there have been differences and both arms of government had sat down to look at what those issues are.

First elected to the Commons in 1990, the former Tory leader is last link to a time when a Conservative cabinet sat in government without a gaggle of pesky Liberal Democrats taking up some seats round the table.

The government has announced it will appeal, with the Supreme Court sitting in full for the first time since it was created in 2009.

This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the Speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two - thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.

After all, eighteen years in government is an awfully long time to sit on a great idea.

These media platforms offered about 70 % of their time and space to the npp to peddle their fake stories and to demonize the sitting president and his government.

«We can not sit down and wait for government to provide jobs for us so we need to do something for ourselves... develop entrepreneur skills but at the same time there should be some opportunities out there for us.

The CDU - CSU won an outright majority — to date, the only time a German party has been elected to a majority government in a free election (the CDU and CSU sit as a single bloc in the Bundestag).

Mayo's resolution sat in committee for more than a year before it came to the legislature for a vote, where it was defeated shortly after the Times Union revealed through a two - month - long examination of municipal payrolls and other public records that at least 11 local elected officials in the Capital Region have at least three relatives each working in local government.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Instead of members of the NPP condemning the acts outright, they resorted to political trickery by claiming that there was a sitting president at the time and the government of the NDC was still in power and that the sitting government needed to act on the development.

There are a few men in the Nigerian government who have overtly and covertly pushed to permanently sit Nigeria exclusively with Islam in times past.

JON SOPEL: I've got say I'm slightly confused Mr Lansley because we've invited you on this programme a number of times, you've told us that you know, the problem with the Health Service is all these government top - down targets and here you are, sitting here today and saying, and what we're going to do is to introduce a national screening programme, which is... (interjection)... why not leave it to the local Health Authority.

Noting a Suffolk Times cover story about a $ 3 million plan to build a new justice court, he asked, «Why aren't we sitting down with a long - range plan for what we are going to do with all these government facilities?»

It is high time the Government addressed it seriously, starting by publishing the results of the working time survey it carried out in March 2016 and has sat on ever since.»

I borrowed about $ 85k through government loans, and was sitting at $ 103k by the time I finished my degree.

It is surely the first time a sitting head of government has nabbed a show at one of the world's leading galleries; even George W Bush, who started painting only after his presidency, couldn't get a show outside his own library in Dallas.

Interestingly, MacKay also announced the government would introduce declaratory provisions into the Supreme Court Act, «clarifying — without making changes to the existing law — that individuals with at least 10 years with [the] Quebec bar at any time during their career, are eligible to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada as a Quebec member.»