Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] government in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget should have been introduced by Chandra Shekhar 's government in February , but had been postponed due to Congress ( I ) pressure [ for details of Rao 's reform measures and the budget see p. 38337 ; for 1990 budget presented by the Singh government in March 1990 see pp. 37315-16 ] . |
| 2 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |
| 3 | This huge expansion was the result of increased fishing technology , better boats , and the free market policy adopted by the Pinochet government in Chile in the 1970s to try to tackle its crippling debts . |
| 4 | No consensus was reached on stricter measures proposed by France , Germany and Ireland , such as a blanket ban on single-hulled tankers and those more than 15 years old ( adopted by the US government in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 ) . |
| 5 | In the case of Ghana , the Daily Graphic was sold to the Nkrumah Government in 1965 . |
| 6 | If anybody wishes to see just how pernicious that influence can be , they can look at the Likud government in Israel , which has had to impose repressive legislation at the behest of religious extremists who hold the balance of power . |
| 7 | On May 25 the United States Congress finally approved US$300,000,000 in aid first requested by the US government in March [ see p. 37311 ] . |
| 8 | Muñoz , who had ignored a leniency agreement offered by the Gaviria government in 1990 to put an end to the violence [ see p. 37772 ] , had been on the run since escaping from prison by helicopter in 1988 while awaiting trial on murder charges . |
| 9 | Dear Resident , The Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards ( CIMAH ) Regulations introduced by the UK Government in 1984 required many chemical companies with large stocks of potentially hazardous chemicals to notify local residents that such chemicals are being stored or used and what actions residents should take in the event of a serious emergency . |
| 10 | On Nov. 9 parliament approved an amendment to the electoral law : the simple proportional representation system introduced by the Pasok government in March 1989 was replaced by a system of reinforced proportional representation , which stipulated a threshold of 3 per cent of votes nationally for any party to secure parliamentary representation . |
| 11 | When Ireland was divided under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , control of local government in the six counties of the north was given to the Stormont government in Belfast . |
| 12 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 13 | The overemphasis on nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of conventional forces was seen by many observers , both military and civilian , to have gone too far , too fast , and too soon ; but the political prize of ending National Service had been seized and that was all that mattered to the Macmillan Government in 1957 . |
| 14 | It was a vision which had been enthusiastically supported by the Thatcher government in London . |
| 15 | Kim and his associates were closely identified with the Kuomintang government in China led by Chiang Kai-shek . |
| 16 | Vietnam , however , maintained that internal issues should be discussed with the SOC government in Phnom Penh ; it was only willing to talk about the international aspects of the problem , and urged the USA to expand the talks to include the SOC government . |
| 17 | There was criticism of the way in which the crisis was handled by the state government in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania . |
| 18 | The commission upheld the claim brought by the Observer , the Guardian and the Sunday Times that the injunctions barring them from printing Wright 's allegations , obtained by the UK government in 1986 [ see p. 35539 ] , breached Article 10 of the Convention safeguarding freedom of expression . |
| 19 | Johannesburg station was designed specifically to separate the races as the full-blown policies of apartheid were developed by the Nationalist government in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 20 | The Klias park was established by the state government in 1978 to protect its mangrove forests and habitats for estuarine crocodiles and the proboscis monkey . |