Sentences with phrase «time the government tried»

The problem about the time the government tried to extend that in the past was it didn't seem, and parliament didn't accept, that there were the necessary judicial checks.

(Although here's what happened last time the government tried to introduce a baseline test)

Not exact matches

This isn't the first time the government has tried this clever strategy, but the effort has never reached across so many states at once.

The Department of Defense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, as well.

Obama's proposed legislation tries to balance security needs with concerns by offering liability protection to companies that provide information in near real - time to the government, while requiring them to strip it of personal data.

When the time came and the Jimenez family was finally permitted to leave Cuba after 18 months of trying, the government gave them barely a matter of days to go.

Telus has tried to acquire the small provider on two occasions but was denied both times by the government, meaning there's zero chance the company can sell out for relative big bucks to an incumbent.

This is not the first time that government has tried to limit executive compensation.

Critics contend that a lack of direction could plague small governments who are trying to beat back debt obligations while at the same time providing services to their populations.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Axworthy said, «Right now, we're trying to get the co-operation of the Indonesian government, this is not the time to isolate them... They are still the mandate in East Timor.»

The good bank Novo Banco then sold its insurance and its investment arms; now the government is trying, for the second time, to sell the remaining assets.

But this time the government has tried to keep the debt overhead on the books — and to tax the population to give banks enough to make sure that the rich don't lose money.

At the time of writing, the Greek government and its creditors were trying to hammer out a «cash - for - reform» deal, amid this month's deadlines for Greece to repay International Monetary Fund loans.

«Christy Clark's government's claims that this late, wildly expensive project is «on time and on budget» shows the premier is either incompetent, or actively trying to mislead people.»

The government tried to force a vote of our FB group, after months of pointless delay in reaching a collective agreement — not the first time that it has deliberately slowed down the collective bargaining process.

I was in the gym earlier today trying to ward off the effects of trans - Pacific travel and 12 hours of time zone changes when the news flashed across the TV that the US government was issuing another round of tariffs against China.

The government cut its budget significantly and at the same time the Federal Reserve was hiking rates to stave off inflation, because they were trying to contain the price inflation from the war years.

Trying to litigate what constitutes an «emergency» e-mail is foolhardy and isn't worth the government's time, not to mention that these mobile technologies actually allow people to be better at work life balance in many cases.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

Sir Winston Churchill gave democracy a backhanded compliment when he famously called it «the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.»

Yes, they will argue if given the opportunity, but the only time you see them become agitated is when religious people try to impose their beliefs on them via public works: government, schools, etc..

If atheists tried to be allowed to have equal time at government meetings to present comments on «Why God is Dead», Christians would go berserk and you KNOW it.

If Islam starts to flex its muscles and try to control government and society here, you will hear about it big time (ahem, I'll bet you will be one of the first ones on the case!).

I hate people who claim to support small government, but who at the same time try to legislate morality.

Next time you want to generalize to all muslims (or all christians or all whatever), try to find out if your concern actually applies to all of them or, as in this case, only the ones in the Iranian government...

And we must be wary about trying to get our government to enforce Biblical guidelines on all the people in a country, for if it can be done with «Christian» laws, it can also be done at a later time with «Muslim» laws, or «Mormon» laws, or whatever religion is in «power» at the time.

The only time you should be concerned about another religion is if that religion should try to force you, through the government or law, to adhere to their religious beliefs.

We also hear repeatedly of individuals who are hassled every time they try to board an airplane because they happen to have the same name as some suspicious character on a government «no - fly list.»

When Our Saviour Yeshua Mashiah came it is importnat to note that he didn't try to change the Romans i.e the government at that time as His thing was not against them, he came to help people as individuals and its only when we as people change can we begin to see change in the world and this is why God is a very personal experince and not religious, we need teachers but not the religious types, we need teachers who guide us to God with us and this is what Our Saviour did, we have the freedom to choose but we can only choose if we have what to choose from and being informed helps us to do this

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

If it were an accident, the first time it caused rashes and or nose bleeds and diarrhea, they would have written what caused it in my Medical Records to stop others from causing the adverse reactions, but no, they have to try to prevent a Law Suit and write that I am delusional about the adverse reactions so every Doctor after that forced the adverse reactions on me and or refused to give me the Medical Treatment actually need, while they make money off charging the government for the Toxic Harmful Drugs that a Judge ordered them not to give me, tut they just falsely called me delusional about the Court Orders, to made money poisoning me with Toxic Drugs and Rash Creams, but normally they do that to their suspecting Victims to make money off doing Kidney transplants like they did to my Uncle, but they will not replace mine, because that is what they planned to do to kill me, just ask their associate assassin Dr Kanter of the Minneapolis VA, of course he will say I am delusional after he assaulted me saying the other Hospital Labs were wrong about that Blood Test that show the harm they caused.

These religious egomainiacs try to push their ideas on everyone no matter what religion your from.Maybe its time for tougher government intervention in the religious arena to calm this down.Religion has also become a booming business for some aspiring individuals, a multimillion dollar goldmine paid for by their religious sheep.God didn't think religion would go to these extremes, religious or political, it wasn't meant to be...

Every time they put prayer in schools, presenting it to people's kids as the norm, every time they manipulate health policies, every time «payer breakfast» is held which is really a government meeting... time after time people still try to shove their religion down others throats.

It reminds me of what Churchill said about democracy: ``... it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.»

A few weeks ago in Venezuela's capital city of Caracas, extremists were in revolt against the government at the same time that Venezuela's bridge team was trying to upset Argentina's domination of South American contract tables.

«Any time government entities can try to find areas where services are duplicated, where it may save some taxpayers dollars, is beneficial to the taxpayers,» Nagle said.

The federal definition of FMNV harks back to the 1970s when there were virtually no rules regarding competitive food and the government was trying to keep the «worst of the worst» out of school cafeterias during meal times.

Remember the last time a large government institution tried to strong arm our farmer's and citizen's?

Calls to control social media in times of civil unrest [2], monitor citizens» communications in order to catch terrorists and paedophiles [3] and prevent citizens from using encrypted communications just in case they are saying something illegal [4] are all examples of government trying to respond to issues they are challenged on.

David Cameron recently joked: «I spend half my time learning what my government has been up to, and the other half trying to stop them doing it.»

Labour overreaches itself when it refers to these provisions in the bill as an omnishambles; the government could not have done much better while trying to modify complex marriage laws, to balance equality laws and religious freedom and at the same time to reconcile irreconcilable, opposing interests.

Every time such massacres happen, leftists try to push the gun control debate using emotional appeal and libertarians try to defend the right to bear arms based on reason (ex: tyrannical governments, right to self - defense,...).

The Albany Times - Union revealed that Percoco was trying to marshal support for the administration while it was under federal investigation for prematurely shutting down the Moreland Commission, and was encouraging people contacted «to communicate with him through private email messages rather than through their government email accounts.»

I seem to recall Labour ministers (especially John Reid and Hazel Blears) spent large amounts of time in the last government desperately trying to look tough on immigrants, shaking up border control repeatedly, and posturing about how those naughty immigrants must be made to integrate.

'' «I think we have made the biggest cuts in public spending that any democratically elected government has tried to do in modern times,» said Mr Clarke.

In other words, the French government owns Open Loop NYC, and they apparently have no regard for the law — let alone New Yorkers who are just trying to use the streets and get to work on time.

Usually the Commons» slow winding - up sees an unusual power - shift: because of limited time as the government tries to rush through its remaining bills, the opposition takes control because ministers need its cooperation to get the legislation through.

In recent months we have seen Harriet Harman try to secure the right for MPs to spend our money on what they like and not tell us about it and government MPs continue to ask for over infl ation pay rises and huge increases in allowances, while at the same time tightening the screw on low paid public servants and jobless people on benefits.

He said the government had taken so long to reform it because it had tried to make the CSA work - but it was now time to «turn over a new leaf».