Sentences with phrase «turns public government»

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It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

Public stimulus investments in 2009 and 2010 filled the gap for a while, but then deficit - fearing governments turned off the tap in 2011.

I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.»

Pollsters say that at this point in a government's mandate, public opinion has often begun to turn against an incumbent prime minister.

The Senate investigators also found evidence that the company turned over substantially less money to the government than its public filings indicated.

This gain in credibility contributed to a rapid decline in long - term interest rates, which in turn significantly reduced public debt charges and contributed to stronger economic growth and government revenues.

The clear public commitment by the authorities (the Government and the Bank) to maintaining low inflation over the medium term appears to have been an important factor in turning around expectations.

This in turn would reduce revenues to governments that support a wide range of vital public services.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

For evangelicals who are wary of government, I suppose you do not turn to the police when you are under threat; you do not drive on public roads; you do not participate in any regulated activities such as banking or stock trading.

Michael Gove, UK environment secretary, said: «We've already seen a number of retailers, bars and restaurants stepping up to the plate and cutting plastic use, however it's only through government, businesses and the public working together that we will protect our environment for the next generation — we all have a role to play in turning the tide on plastic.»

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja has turned down ruling in the bail application filed by embattled former chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi who is currently facing trial bordering on six count charges of violation of Public Procurement laws and money laundering as slammed on him by the Federal Government.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

Labour is struggling to claw back the perception of «economic competence» it needs to persuade voters to give it another chance, even as public opinion has turned against further government austerity.

Dabiri, said that the forum would hold at the City Hall, Lagos Island, is also in line with government's quest to turn around the fortunes of the Agency around through effective Public - Private Sector partnership.

If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) can not even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn?

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction».

No longer content with deriding «illegal» migrants, or «swarms» of refugees seeking protection, the government has turned its attention to the hitherto unnoticed peril of migrants with jobs and visas who come here to work, pay taxes, create jobs, and support our ageing population and underfunded public services.

I share the view expressed by objective and reasonable members of the public that because the government was the 1st defendant / respondent against whom the Supreme Court made declarations of unconstitutional conduct in paying the judgment debt to Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the government has been pretending for purely political reasons at each turn to take steps to enforce the judgment and orders of the court only to deliberately abort them.

Already, though, public opinion has turned against government austerity.

To be sure, Giambra takes pride in many accomplishments: a new youth detention center, a new public safety campus in downtown Buffalo, a new corporate setup for Erie County Medical Center, small - scale successes in consolidation, a property tax rate still among the lowest in New York and the fact that he turns over a fiscally sound government to County Executive - elect Chris Collins.

«It's sort of amazing that every time there are important positions in government they just happen to turn up with former staff of the governor,» said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group (who once worked for Cuomo).

The executive director of the state's Committee on Open Government who reporters and members of the public frequently turn to for his encyclopedic knowledge on freedom of information laws told the Capital Tonight team he's on vacation.

The discovery of another almost N15bn from the Osborne Ikoyi, Lagos luxury apartment appears to have put the Presidency on the spot; compounding what are turning out to be a burgeoning credibility and public relations burdens for the APC - led federal government.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Governor's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he described Lai Mohammed as «an embodiment of contradictions, who speaks from several sides of his mouth, turning himself to a vegetable while struggling to defend a government that has done more evil than good to Nigeria and its people.»

After a period of protests, seeking to ensure black people were represented in government and other areas of public life, the revolution against the British occupation and the exploitation of the country's natural resources turns violent.

If Hein's 180 - degree turn is any indicator, public opinion may finally have begun to seep into county government.

«If the government is to hold a genuinely extensive public debate on our future NSS before political attention turns to the next general election, it needs to get on with it,» it warned.

The public may resent government attempts to encourage healthy eating but the government has in turn been criticised for failing to promote or enable healthy lifestyles.

It's hard to see how that can be considered «real» effect; but it may shape public opinions which in turn may have some effects on states» governments» policies.

At every turn — the Government publication of a public information leaflet, the launch of Treasury data on the cost of Brexit, the need to register a website, all appear to catch the Brexit team off guard.

It's not just Iain Duncan Smith who is opposing George Osborne - the tide of public opinion seems to be turning against government austerity.

«The subject was, ostensibly, another - the experiment in public spending that the Labour Government has conducted since the turn of the century.

Unless the government does an about - turn on its plans to force public sector workers to work longer and pay more for much less pension in retirement, this first joint strike will include 750,000 public servants.

«Voters are looking for someone who can turn state government around, and most plan to look no farther than Andrew Cuomo,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

These are serious times that require radical thinking, so it is staggering that the government have chosen to turn a blind eye to the huge amounts of wasteful and unnecessary public sector spending.

«The Town Supervisor allegedly turned over the keys of town government to an unelected self - dealer, and the charged conduct marks an outrageous betrayal of the public trust,» Singas said in a statement.

«Through their crimes, Dean and Adam Skelos have fed the public's worst fears and suspicions about their government: that our elected officials are not looking out for the public good, but instead looking out only for ways to turn the immense power entrusted in them into personal profit,» they said in court filings.

Russell Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said it's not surprising that state leaders turned to those they know from government and business.

The government's grandly entitled Electricity Market Reform turned out to be a mechanism to deliver a hidden subsidy for nuclear which they had given repeated assurances would never be provided from public funds,

Instead, he suggested local governments, which levy property taxes, could look into setting up new charitable funds for public services such as healthcare or schools and in turn issue tax credits to New Yorkers who make donations to them.

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.

The research is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, and Hamm's database will be turned over to the government for public use.

US officials have sought to reassure the public that the government is taking swift measures to contain an influenza outbreak that threatens to turn into a pandemic.

Our approach is to drive content, primarily through social media, that steers public conversation and enables greater participation against ivory consumption that in turn supports and promotes pro-conservation government policy and enforcement.

«Explain to me,» Chertoff said, «why a member of the American public should send his information to the government, ask us to issue an ID, and then turn around and pay $ 100 to an outside businessman to go to the head of our line?»

But what we need is the support of the public and the government and we need to get those 80 million people invested in trying to, you know, turn that interest into something that'll start growing more birds.

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In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.