Example sentences of "which [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will also look at the implications of the presence of lower-tier organs of government , at local levels , and at the way in which representative government seems to be expected to work within them . |
| 2 | There is a further sense in which representative government is indirect . |
| 3 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 4 | And one is conscious as Pierre Gemayel speaks — unfairly perhaps but the parallel is there — of another , infinitely more vulnerable minority which another government blamed , back in the 1930s , for its own social ills . |
| 5 | There are so many ways in which different government agencies can veto or neutralize other agencies ' initiatives that a new agency , with more precisely defined policies , is seen as offering , perhaps in desperation , a new way to ‘ get something done ’ . |
| 6 | Citing the EC example , he said : ‘ It was Mrs Thatcher who signed the Single European Act , which is the biggest transfer of sovereignty which this government has ever undertaken in any period of our history . ’ |
| 7 | The most significant welfare change , both in terms of numbers of people affected and the sum saved in public expenditure , has been the method by which this Government has calculated increases in social security . |
| 8 | But given the speed at which this government is moving , few doubt that the new education reforms , what ever they may be , will be firmly cemented in place by the time the commission reports . |
| 9 | The most effective way of avoiding short-termism is to defeat inflation , a task which this Government are well on the way to achieving . |
| 10 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 11 | Steven mentioned the constraints that the E M U may impose on the economy , but the biggest single issue is the scandalous position in which this government has placed British workers by opting out of a Social Chapter and thus denying the right and protection at work which are granted , taken for granted as minimum basic conditions in all other member states . |
| 12 | What the voluntary sector did , which democratic government could not do , was the following : |
| 13 | The paper states : ‘ It is not implausible to foresee a situation in which central government exercises increasing control over the ordinary movements and activities of its citizens . |
| 14 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 15 | Whilst controversy may continue to rage over the most desirable structure for local government and as to the measure of control which central government should exercise over it , the case for having some such structure as the present as a part of the make-up of the constitution remains an imperative both of history and of modern democratic ideals . |
| 16 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 17 | While it seems to involve the development of a national policy for the disabled , in practice its dependence upon local government makes it a gesture in which central government involvement is comparatively slight . |
| 18 | Then there will be some situations in which central government has made it very clear that the policy initiative rests with the local agency , by permitting activities if they so wish . |
| 19 | First , discussed in this chapter , is the procedure by which central government decides upon the total level of public expenditure it believes should be financed out of taxation . |
| 20 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 21 | This new ‘ planning total ’ brings together all the elements of public expenditure for which central government is responsible . |
| 22 | The extent to which control has moved out of the hands of the local authorities can be seen in Figure 6.7 , where an asterisk ( * ) indicates a power traditionally held by the LEA which can now be taken over by schools which ‘ opt out ’ ; a dagger ( t ) indicates new powers which central government has taken on since 1979 , often transferred from the LEA ; and a double dagger ( 1– ) in the parents or governors column indicates new duties and rights they have received since 1979 . |
| 23 | The development of housing action trusts is one of the most exciting ways in which central Government are helping the regions . |
| 24 | However , one alternative way in which central government may play a role is to collect the tax revenue on behalf of local governments and then simply to turn the revenue over to them . |
| 25 | Other sales which were planned but would be delayed for various reasons were those of Coalcorp , the former state coal mining operation ; Landcorp , which administered government buildings and land ; and Electricorp , which operated the power stations and the national grid . |
| 26 | It should not be thought that Unionists enjoyed such a situation , for they certainly did not , but nor can it be suggested that they saw any real alternative , for in truth the basis of agreement on which parliamentary government " rested had all but broken down . |
| 27 | On the day before the Newbury By-election , I , and others , had participated in a very frank exchange of views with representatives of the Department of National Heritage ( DoNH ) , at a seminar organised by the Tourism Society — at which current Government policy was discussed with representatives of the tourism industry . |
| 28 | Tordoff noted that the mutiny forced Nyerere to take a tougher line , as was evidenced by his use of the preventive Detention Act ; it also accelerated other trends which increased government control over such alternative power focuses as the trade unions , the co-operatives and the armed forces . |
| 29 | Aerospace officials say that support is growing for a national strategic plan in which increased government spending would be matched by the industry 's own resources . |
| 30 | This in turn creates one of the most difficult problems of all , a personal one which many government servants , and agents or consultants must feel . |