Sentences with phrase «time the government brought»

«Every time this government brings out a new scheme it falls apart... that's why the welfare revolution we were promised is crumbling and the benefits bill is soaring # 20 billion higher than planned.»

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I WAS at a function the other night where the Treasurer, Peter Costello, sang the praises of the Howard Government in bringing in a trade surplus for the first time since John Gorton was Prime Minister.

People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $ 540 million jackpot that could be won Friday — some state governments struggling through lean times know a hometown winner would bring a tax bonanza.

The federal government has already sent troops to Cancun to help reinforce security forces there, and municipal authorities recently brought on Julian Leyzaola, who inspired fear and praise during his time as police chief in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, as an adviser.

The indictment marks the first time that the U.S. government has brought charges against foreign officials for cyber spying.

Frost called at the time for the government to «bring clarity to the transition to Brexit as soon as possible, and to negotiate to ensure that the current open trading environment is not affected.»

With eliminating the deficit in time for the election the government's single biggest priority, it follows that the Finance Minister who brought Canada through the recession in relatively sound shape should be kept on to ensure the books are balanced on schedule.

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

That could set up another showdown like those that took place in 2011 and 2013 — when lawmakers brought the government to the brink of defaulting on U.S. debt, leading Standard & Poor's to downgrade the nation's credit rating for the first time.

It brought a long - desired prescription drug benefit to Medicare for the first time, at less cost than if the government had paid for it — and indeed, for less money than its own projected budget (last time I checked).

Buchanan does not accuse those who have brought us economic globalism of ill will or bad faith, partly because he was himself an ardent supporter of free trade during his time of government service under Ronald Reagan.

It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers.

People bring up they don't want government in their business, but look if it wasn't for the government the 9 black students who went to school in the south for the 1st time after slavery and aparthied was abolished wouldn't have gotten to that school if the people with their fear and hatred had their way.

They also prepared ahead of time so they could bring much needed generators and pumps to flooded homes right after the storm and before government help arrived.

But Indulgences did seem to encourage devotion, and at the same time brought in so much money both to the civil and to the ecclesiastical governments that it was to be wondered how else such sums of money could be found.

Times when Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1670 said, «I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government.

It is time government institutions took the lead in establishing more incubation centres to enable researchers to scale up their innovative ideas, facilitating alignment with start - ups in order to bring in new innovations, which would help in solving a number of problems faced by the society.

«I continue to watch our leaders in government, and like all Americans, I continue to be hopeful that our leaders exhibit poise, perspective and the ability to bring our country together during these tough times — which I don't feel our presidency is currently doing — so that's where I'm at.»

One, an open letter to the then Prime Minister - in - waiting Gordon Brown and published in The Times (to read it click here) brought together 30 signatories ranging from Women's Aid to Families Need Fathers, and called on the government to ensure good services for separated families.

UK legislation does not reflect this, despite the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calling three times (in 2002, 2008 and 2016) for successive governments to bring legislation into line with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly.

You can see how this is a lose / lose situation — hungry students have a harder time learning, and when kids skip meals which would be paid for by the federal government, the cafeteria brings in less money to help offset its fixed expenses like labor and overhead.

We kept running into each other at student government meetings, the cafeteria, and then friends intervened to keep bringing us together, and eventually — although really, probably only a few weeks — we were «dating,» spending more and more time together.

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

He told the audience the time has come for Africans to tell her good story, saying he does not share in the idea by the populace that the Mahama - led government has brought untold hardships unto Ghanaians.

MRSA Action UK helps to bring the human cost to the attention of government and industry over the ticking time bomb and lack of desperately needed antibiotics.

At times, it'll hard for the British Government to claim that life outside the EU will bring that.

As Attorney General and as Governor, I have fought to bring performance, integrity and pride back to what was, at one time, the best state government in the nation.

A long time ago I was a Labour councillor who inadvertently brought down the 1974 - 9 Labour government.

Nana Akufo - Addo called on every patriotic Ghanaian at the time to protest the decision by President Mahama because it was a selfish decision, equally accusing the president of not giving full disclosure on the agreement with the US government to bring in this detainees: Khalid Mohammed Salih al Dhuby and Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef.

By attacking public workers, they can demonize «big labor» and «big government» at the same time, while deflecting attention from the more logical target of Middle America's rage: the irresponsible Wall Street traders, whose risky, high - profit business practices brought down the economy, and the lax regulators who let them get away with it.

David Cameron will insist the government can have its rehabilitation revolution at the same time as bringing «retribution» on the country's criminals in a speech this lunchtime.

«Andrew Cuomo has shown time and again that by bringing integrity, honesty, and independence — both from partisan politics and special interests — government can get things done for the people,» Barrett said.

Comment: Despite a range of attempts within the party itself and by the party in government I fear that it is now clear that without specific, binding changes to bring about equal access for women to the top jobs in business and politics we will not be able to achieve these fundamental goals any time soon.

David Cameron has insisted the government can have its rehabilitation revolution at the same time as bringing «retribution» on the country's criminals in a speech this lunchtime.

Jacqui Smith: As the hon. Gentleman knows, there is a period of time during which, quite rightly and reasonably — not least given that the Government's approach to the retention of data was upheld in the UK courts — there is consideration and proposals are brought forward.

It's past time to allocate the necessary funds to bring the signal system up to date and I thank Councilmember Lander, our colleagues in government, and the transit advocates who are working to bring this issue to the forefront through the #SignalFail campaign.»

The government plans to bring the issue to parliament before the end of the year and there is no sign that Labour will be able or willing to present a united front in one of the most important strategic debates of our time.

The governor, who has not been accused of wrongdoing and whose office did not comment by press time, has never acknowledged that it was he who brought Percoco into government and vested in him the authority that he ultimately abused to solicit bribes.

«You can not be enjoying the huge and enormous resources of the people, living in luxury and at the same time refusing to do your job, making trouble with the executive at the slightest opportunity, bringing the government to a standstill and then turning members of the Senate into puns who can be pushed here and there.

New York officials pointed out several times during the trip that they had successfully negotiated a waiver with the federal government that brought back $ 8 billion to reinvest in the state's Medicaid program.

As someone who is in tech and not on the West Coast, Ohanian praised the fact «that after years of telling people bring in the nerds, we need more leaders, we don't need more bureaucrats in government, we need people who actually get things done, who have actually created things, we need them in office... for the first time I felt that there were candidates who represented the needs of 21st century New Yorkers.»

Cuomo touted his creation of tax free zones for some new businesses and his record of bringing stability to government, with four on time budgets for the first time in decades.

Now is a time when they can show true leadership on the issue and work to bring more light to government in New York.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

At a recent Mayor's Question Time session with the London Assembly he indicated his impatience at the delay of the Government to bring in a reform that would help:

Although championed by the government at the time for bringing drugs prices inline with the rest of Europe, the Office of Fair Trading heavily criticised the PPRS in February.

A potential EU directive would not come into effect for some time, and environmental minister David Heath told the Commons yesterday that the government was not aware of any plans to bring in a ruling.

One of David Cameron's first acts at PM was to ring Mr Blatter to underline the government's support for the attempt to bring the World Cup to England for the first time since 1966.

People are bent on doing things that will bring his government down in no time he noted.

The leader of the biggest opposition party also made a firm commitment to introduce a regime that will implement a policy for the election of District Chief Executives (DCEs) explaining that: «The time has come to bring accountability to local government through competitive politics.