Sentences with phrase «very thing the government»

Marjane thinks it's funny that she got the man arrested; her grandmother, repulsed by the fact that Marjane has used her sex — the very thing the government is trying so hard to control — as an excuse, a manipulation, is furious with her.
But they have a sticky situation on their hands because clamping down too hard at once could harm the overall market and cause citizens to lose their money — the very thing the government is trying to avoid.

Not exact matches

There's no role for government — and that's a very good thing,» said Ken Paulson, a former USA Today editor who now directs the First Amendment Center in Tennessee.
«Albertans will give the government a free reign for a very long time, as long as they sense the government is taking care of things in a way that is basically sound,» says Danielle Smith, the Wildrose Alliance's leader.
«There are some very questionable things when it comes to this B.C. Liberal government grant to their friends,» said Ravi Kahlon.
But one thing that makes predicting the end of this bubble very difficult is the amount of firepower the Chinese government has.
With very little variation, Mr. Munger would often say that he had no idea how he could change something, whether that thing was a government agency, a business culture, or the United States health care system.
The very first thing is to get business out of government just like we did with religion.
«That mindset has framed things, which means I have had to work very much harder to get things done even where they are what the Home Secretary agrees with and where it has been helpful for the Government and the department.
It seems that, among other things, some conspiracy of computer masters has already established a world government, setting the stage for the very last days.
Sometimes indeed such a government is captured by the very thing it fights.
When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.
The existence of these terrorrists in oil - rich middle east countries are the very thing needed by Western superpowers to justify their military existence in those areas and to make the world believe that they are «helping» these governments / countries.
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
He said: «The reality is that if we debated this last week, the Government would have been unable to tell us exactly what it was going to do and the difficult reality would have been that we would have all been floundering around thinking very different things about what the Government had in mind.
(per household) As nationalized peoples suffering from obesity epidemics and drug dependancies cry about these things to the very leaders who are carrying out these things, those who strive to be like Christ are happy that ENRON stole your money to built electric powerplants providing electricity to millions of decent people in foreign lands who can now provide for their families without government assistance or crooked activities.
«Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government.
Its teachings are very, very simple: There really are free and natural markets where the optimum value of things is assigned to them; everyone must compete with everyone; the worthy will prosper and the unworthy fail; those who succeed while others fail will be made deeply and justly happy by this experience, having had no other object in life; each of us is poorer for every cent that is used toward the wealth of all of us; governments are instituted among people chiefly to interfere with the working out of these splendid principles.
One could thus envision, for instance, debate about such things as the very appropriateness of the bishops writing such a letter, which in making concrete government policy suggestions clearly stretches the definition of «pastoral.»
Should I say Nana Akufo - Addo has built a hospital or should I say he has built a school, so when people ask those things, maybe because they don't know the type of magazines I publish... so if Nana is President of Ghana, and he is producing these things and I don't publicize it then you can hold me that I am very unfair so we are looking at the man who is in government now and like I explained, when [John] Kufuor was there that was exactly what we did for him, we did same for Rawlings,» he added.
It took over a century for people like Marx to pinpoint what actually happened, from a societal pespective; People like Adam Smith had analyzed very early the economical aspect of things but didn't see how much capitalism is intertweened in the philosophy and government system.
2) If something more egregious is going on, as suggested in the quote above, the first thing I want to know is WHO is giving some government entity access to the names of all prescriptions taken by each person on (at the very least) a list of registered gun owners?
I agree that the redistributive settlement needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New Labour did.
Consider two criteria for priority for a Labour blogger: (1) the degree of importance of an issue to the basic functioning of a liberal democracy; (2) areas where the party / government has things very wrong.
This is further complicated by the fact that «Israeli government» is a very shifting thing.
What's more, by the sound of things he will be playing a very similar role as he did under Blair, providing evidence - based policy to a government that has on occasion seemed bereft of ideas and more driven by marketing than political conviction.
The right to speak freely was curtailed severely and the press and pulpits were censored for the crime of criticizing the government, the British disarmed the civilian population and then forced them to provide for the very troops enforcing these things.
And part of it has to do with the South Korean government, and Moon Jae - In's masterful diplomacy, I mean frankly he knows what a narcissistic psychopath — I mean I don't know if he knows that but they clearly know and have studied very closely Donald Trump and, you know, they have made statements such that «it is because of Donald Trump and the US's maximum pressure campaign» and, they have known all the gracious ways to frame things so that he feels that this is — Yeah you know, it's like everybody's managing somebody that is a really injured person, an unwell person
«We are under assault by a federal government that is very good at doing bad things to the state of New York,» Cuomo said.
If we're going to be the very best at the things we are good at - advanced manufacturing, creative industries, business services, pharmaceuticals, renewables - then government has to work in partnership with business.
«We're running this government very differently, and we're doing a number of things that weren't touched at all in those years, and we've got to have the personnel to make it work.»
Christine Quinn The goal of the Campaign Finance program was to make sure, among other things, that average New Yorkers could have access to elected office, which is a very, very important goal to making government as responsive and representative as it can possibly be.
«The current situation of our country, I am asking Nigerians not to blame President Buhari because he is working very hard to make sure things go well with Nigerians that voted APC government to power.
«The Police must act, the government must act, I know that right at the moment they [government] are saddled by all sorts of responsibilities but these are the very things that can cause diversion so the sooner we nib it in the bud the better,» Rev. Asante told Naa Dedei Tettey on Starr Today on Wednesday.
Speaking of Sarah Teather's «very sad» decision to quit as an MP, Farron described being in government as «tough... it's a stressful thing to do, to be in government at a time when you've got to deal with austerity.
One thing that beats my imagination is how the leadership of NPP will allow the NDC appointees to continue holding key positions in the ruling government Seven Months after taking power when these are the very people who are also going to campaign across the length and breadth of the country to wrestle power from the NPP in 2020.
«It's a clear constitutional breach and it opens up a massive division between him and the government, who have been saying not entirely the opposite but very, very different things
«When I went to Albany, I had two very strong things going for me: I had been in local government and I had the experience of being a small business owner,» Pataki said in a statement.
«On a personal note, I am very proud of all the things you have done for Edo State and even this country Nigeria, and I can say the few achievements I have actually attained in Lagos State were driven and inspired by the kind of energy you bring into governance, and I am very proud to be associated with you and the government of Edo State.»
It is the minority that passes bills, loans, work in government, correct things that they bring, do winnowing of bills and for anybody to insinuate, to even say, that the minority are not working, they are sleeping in parliament is very very unfortunate.»
I write this piece in the expectation that President Buhari will be made to be aware (since he is said not to be aware of many things) that his own men are destroying the very foundation of his government.
However whoever wins the next election will have two do to highly unpopular things very quickly to decrease the massive Government debt, first - Raise taxes.
«He wasn't talking about the Pakistan government, but things within Pakistan that caused terrorism elsewhere, and so that is a very important distinction.
It must have been a very difficult thing for him to say personally, but I think he's taken it in the national interest, and I think his announcement could be an important element in the smooth transition towards a stable government that people deserve, without, of course, prejudice and without predicting what the outcome of the talks will be between ourselves and the Labour Party.»
His account of what he encountered — a state government abusing credit cards and buying things like light towers, pumps and generators without being able to keep tabs of what it owned or rented or, in some cases, had lost — would have been very convenient ammunition for the Republican congressmen beyond the Northeast who had argued that the post-Sandy recovery inventory reeked of wasteful spending.
He had very tough things to say about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, especially on foreign policy and government style, but he came alive putting his expensive boot into David Cameron.
«One thing we identified which is the synergy between the Federal Government and the States which is very important is that this meeting has raised a lot of issues and we believe that the collaboration will help us to tackle the issues in the Niger Delta.
«I'm very keen that we do something - we start to think about the issues that affect things like family breakdown, which got worse under this government.
When we were campaigning — it is necessary to continue to hammer on this point — we were not in government; we knew things were very bad but we did not know they were as bad as we eventually found them.
«It rather sums up the very bad few weeks the Government has had with the question of immigration and what a mess the whole thing is.»
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