Sentences with phrase «took over the government in»

The new directors of the CIA, its main internal branches, the National Security Agency, and many other key organs of the «defense establishment» are now military (or ex-military) officers, strongly suggesting that the military does not need to take over the government in order to control it.

When President Ibrahim Babangida took over the government in August of 1985, he immediately repealed this decree.

TRENTON, N.J. — A millionaires» tax, legal marijuana and a higher minimum wage could all be in store in the new year as Democrats prepare to take over government in New Jersey.

So, for someone to talk so authoritatively and daringly about taking over government in Edo State, I think its unbecoming of the Rivers governor, particularly when you look at the history of his own election in Rivers and how many lives were lost.

Not exact matches

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

Boeing had taken Denmark to court over a lack of access to documents used in the government's decision to buy the Lockheed Martin jets.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

In the case of the Royal Mail, the government took over the corporation's pension plan and covered off the deficit in fundinIn the case of the Royal Mail, the government took over the corporation's pension plan and covered off the deficit in fundinin funding.

The Autumn Statement is a mini-budget in which the chancellor updates the country on the government's taxation and spending plans, and it will be the new cabinet's first major economic announcement since May took over as prime minister.

Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Wales.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

Westpac struck similar deals in Adelaide and Launceston, where it took over state - of - the - art Ansett call centres and received financial support from the respective State governments.

In certain cases, unscrupulous politicians from the north took over southern state governments during Reconstruction, issued bonds and made off with the proceeds.

When I was 16 the country's economy began to collapse in earnest when the government took over the farms.

Take government - owned sovereign wealth funds for example: Over $ 5 trillion is invested in global capital markets from SWF's coming directly from oil - producing nations.

Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to...

Of the 476,000 applications that have been started, just over half have been from the 36 states where the federal government is taking the lead in running the markets.

The mixed messages from the data make any policy tweaks particularly sensitive - especially as China puts the finishing touches to a government transition that began in November and is set to be sealed by March 17 with Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang taking over as president and premier, respectively.

Taking place in a California federal court, the case pits Apple against the U.S. government over control of the iPhone, with terrorism and privacy as the backdrop.

When he took over in 2006, his government inherited a trend line.According to Statistics Canada, manufacturing employment in Canada grew in the late 1990s, then stagnated from 2001 to 2004, before a «clear downward trend» began around 2005.

JPMorgan, through a deal backstopped by the government, took over Bear Stearns in 2008.

Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.

It would be far better for the government to step in and take over mortgages from families, so that they could stay in their homes with greater certainty through this period of turmoil.

The result would be that, instead of Canadian exporters having to challenge US trade agency determinations under Chapter 19, any dispute with the Americans in dumping and subsidy cases would be taken over by the Canadian government.

In addition, the Government should give up its total control over these plans and consider joint management / risk taking with its employees.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

Instead of the governments taking over the banks as in Europe, instead of steering their lending in the public interest, the Treasury is leaving control over to the same guys who have been mismanaging the credit system all along.

«It's not possible for the federal government, of course, to take over everything the local police used to do in a state that's legalized it.

Over the past few days, there have been any number of politicians, pundits and pollsters who have scolded the Conservative government for the position it has taken in Copenhagen.

In the year since Scheer took over, the Conservatives have gradually reversed to the less - than - sunny tone that was a defining feature of their recent governments.

In government, the process of providing a service or «product» is often complex, with multiple interactions taking place over long timeframes with little by way of tangible outputs.

Companies like Caterpillar earn billions in revenue from Canadian resource developments. Yet Caterpillar is under no compulsion to produce anything in Canada. To the contrary, our governments gave Caterpillar carte blanche to take over and then shut down important productive assets. They will continue to supply our resource projects from outside the country, unless and until we implement a strategy to enhance our capacity to do this important, valuable work ourselves.

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

In Africa, in the seventies, when they took over several countries» governments the first thing they would do is to change (in one day) all road names to heroes of the communist systeIn Africa, in the seventies, when they took over several countries» governments the first thing they would do is to change (in one day) all road names to heroes of the communist systein the seventies, when they took over several countries» governments the first thing they would do is to change (in one day) all road names to heroes of the communist systein one day) all road names to heroes of the communist system.

Whether that's this year in 2018 or 2019, I don't know, but I do know that over the next 3 years this big reversal that we talk about in the paper is going to unfold and is going to take away all the options from the governments that have fiat currencies.

Kimberly - Clark's plant in Venezuela will be taken over and re-activated by the government, according to the country's labor minister.

We expect earnings growth to take over from multiple expansion as a driver of returns, and the decline in risk premia to largely be offset by a rise in underlying government bond yields.

In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail - ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming socialist society... and much, much more.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

In the UK, the likes of Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, and Alliance and Leicester have all been taken over by rivals or the UK Government, while the UK's largest mortgage lender, HBOS, is about to be gobbled up by Lloyds TSB, which itself has seen better days.

Thankfully the government now seems to be taking a hard line to it, especially in Ontario where SFH prices have cratered over 20 % since April due to a swathe of government interventions.

When Muslims become 80 % of the population, try and push creationism and other myths into our science classes, force their god on our currency, take over our government as you Christians do then they'll be in the bulls eye.

Shah Jahan, famous as the builder of the Taj Mahal, was emperor from 1038 until 1070 (A.D. 1628 - 59), when the control of the government was taken over by his son Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughal emperors, who died in 1119 (A.D. 1707).

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

In other words, the state should not take over the functions of the family, civil society and lower levels of government.

Since World War II, the churches» role in education at all levels has diminished, as the government has taken over.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

HOW do people think the POOR got help BEFORE the government took over the job of redistribution??? NOW we PAY federal workers to redistribute money to the poor with a LOT of wasted dollars in between because of layers and layers of federal mess in between