Sentences with phrase «time the government intervened»

«Any time the government intervenes drastically, you see consumers just kind of wait it out and see how it's going to take effect,» Alexander said.

«It's high time the government intervened to put a cap on energy prices and tightened regulation to stop this racketeering which is hurting families and the economy.

«Isn't it time the Government intervened and looked at the real cost of this — which is damage to children's education but also # 1.3 bn spent last year on agency teachers?

Not exact matches

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.

If it is the case that not intervening would have led to a significant massacre within this week / fortnight, there is a pragmatic lesser evil case for on balance supporting a not very well thought through intervention (the US has clearly not spent a long time doing this), and a stalemate, and then looking to the Arab League to mediate a political settlement over time in which the government can't win by massacre.

In practice, the privileges of the Official Opposition go far further, for example through frontbenchers» established right to speak at the start and end of most debates, and to intervene during oral question times (including Prime Minister's Questions), plus an expectation that the Speaker will select important opposition amendments for debate at report stage of government bills.

Whether you think the Labour leader's last - minute gauntlet yesterday at «tea - time» - as many commentators have so quaintly described Miliband's 11th hour (ie 5.15 pm) threat to vote against the government's initial motion to intervene in Syria - was politicking or boldness in the national interest, it may not necessarily be the reason behind the suddenly watered - down vote.

Frank Field, the Labour MP who has drawn up the Government's child poverty strategy, told The Times that the national network of Sure Start centres would be «decimated» by council cuts unless the Prime Minister intervenes immediately.

At that time, the Conservative government of John Major and most Westminster Tories were resolutely opposed to intervening militarily against the Bosnian Serbs, either through the despatch of ground troops or the use of air power, or even to allowing the Bosnians to defend themselves by lifting the international arms embargo that locked in place a Serb advantage in heavy weaponry.

During a raucous session of PMQs in which the Speaker intervened several times to call order, Clegg said: «It was simply a moral outrage that last year the Labour government imprisoned behind bars 1,000 children who were innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever.

And the chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, Councillor David Simmonds, called for «bureaucratic barrier «s which he said had prevented councils from intervening for a long time, «swept away».

It is not the first time a government agency has intervened in the trust's affairs in the past year.

During a congressional hearing in May, she refused to cite a single example of a time when she thought it was appropriate for the federal government to intervene in cases of discrimination by private schools receiving federal voucher funds.

The option for institutional reform adopted by the government was to provide the tribunal with an exclusive mediation role, with the Federal Court able to intervene at any time.

Now is the perfect time for some government to intervene and impose a tax on the increase in house prices, and rescue society from a trend that hurts almost everyone.»