Example sentences of "if a government " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is only a marginal improvement , for even if a government stooge is avoided , the separate agency chairmen and members may still win control on important issues . |
| 2 | Those rules should anyway be non-discriminatory — so if a government taxes imported gas-guzzlers , it should tax home-made ones , too . |
| 3 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |
| 4 | If a government wants to impose standards for the efficiency of new buildings , then it must also ensure that the materials are available , and that people are trained to use them . |
| 5 | If a government can not bring itself to introduce a completely free market for foreign exchange ( at least for current transactions ) , there are many possible alternative policies . |
| 6 | If a government in the Third World wants to meet the energy needs of its people without destroying the environment or creating human misery , it has to adopt an integrated national policy on energy for cooking . |
| 7 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |
| 8 | It follows that if a government should wish to keep unemployment below the NUP , it must keep on increasing the rate of growth of the money supply and will have to tolerate an ever-increasing rate of inflation . |
| 9 | Exceptionally , if a government underestimates the strength of opposition amongst its own backbenchers , or fails to anticipate the extent of opposition in the other House , it may be necessary to modify a bill or even have an amendment forced upon it . |
| 10 | If a government minister dissents then he 's out , for the sake of the government 's credibility . |
| 11 | If a government supporter killed him , it was a politically stupid thing to do . |
| 12 | If a government does not feel the reforms are its own , it will have little commitment to carrying them out . |
| 13 | If a government taxes , say , the use of nasty chemicals , it may run into problems with its domestic industry , which will complain that foreign competitors escape scot-free . |
| 14 | It is pointed out , for example , that if a government , having lost the confidence of the House , attempted to continue in power in breach of that convention , it would ultimately be forced to act illegally as Parliament would not grant it supply . |
| 15 | If a government exercises some ‘ power without right , ’ it seems to be necessarily implied that the people have a corresponding right to resist . |
| 16 | If a government has the right to rule it is regarded as legitimate , and this , in turn , provides it with authority . |
| 17 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 18 | Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services . |
| 19 | If a Government department or Birmingham City Council enters into a contract with a building company for the construction of a block of offices , and a dispute arises , the law which governs the matter is essentially the same as it would be if the contract were between two private persons . |
| 20 | There is no easy way back up out of the spiral because if a government attempts to buy back public support in order to alleviate the " political " problem of governability then this not only overtaxes the economy but stimulates inflation so further exacerbating the " economic " problem and making sustained and balanced growth all the more difficult . |
| 21 | If a Government who embraced the social charter were returned from the Opposition parties , would we not soon be back in those waters and simply become an industrial desert ? |
| 22 | The intellectual case for disposal is fine and if a Government take an intelligent view about the need to buy new pictures it poses no danger . |
| 23 | If a government wishes to take action to reduce the rate of inflation , it must deflate aggregate demand along traditional Keynesian lines , thereby raising the actual unemployment rate , U , above NAIRU . |
| 24 | If a government inspector agrees with their decision the private hospital will not be built and the CT Scanner which Bioplan promised to bring to Darlington will be lost . |
| 25 | A BUS company is anxiously waiting to hear if a Government minister will break the deadlock over a deal which could bring a Sainsbury superstore to Darlington . |
| 26 | In the past , if a government lost a vote in Parliament over a major policy issue like the Maastricht treaty , it automatically resigned and called a general election . |