Example sentences of "government decided [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The new government decided to use the existing legal framework to save the time and possible difficulties that new laws might bring about , hut with certain modifications .
2 The government decided to level the playing field : the societies also must pay quarterly , from April 1986 .
3 Britain has an annual trade deficit of around £8bn with West Germany and Mr Pohl 's comments could be relevant to Britain if the Government decided to join the exchange rate mechanism .
4 It was only when the Government decided to shadow the Deutschmark that it dropped its commitment to sound money .
5 But as the next chapter will try to demonstrate , the feeling that the relationship had been seriously weakened — and perhaps even jeopardized — did not occur until the Americans became deeply involved in the Vietnam War and the British government decided to abandon the defence role East of Suez .
6 He remained silent when the government decided to extend the period of contribution required for a full state pension , thereby calling into question the right to retire at 60 , introduced by the Socialists .
7 There has been speculation that the move might be the first step towards privatisation of the business formed as a state-owned entity in 1989 when the Government decided to withdraw the nuclear power sector from plans to privatise the rest of the electricity industry .
8 In order to keep exports competitive and to shore up foreign exchange reserves , the government decided to allow the peso to float freely .
9 The Czech government decided to delay the placing of orders for shares until after March 15 , 1992 .
10 From 1977 onwards , though , the government decided to curtail the programme — a policy development the Conservative governments elected after 1979 were to endorse .
11 The huge expansion began in the early 1960s , when the federal government decided to change the whole character of higher education in Germany .
12 The newly elected Conservative government decided to reduce the extent of designated areas , through a programme of phased withdrawals , over the following three years ( see Townsend 1980 ) .
13 With the formation of a National government in 1931 a dictatorship by mediocrity was established , in Joyce 's view , though ‘ the government decided to pay the leader of the opposition two thousand pounds a year for pretending to obstruct the conduct of its business . ’
14 This week , the government decided to award the men payments , and the move is a coup for Mr Robinson and the firefighters , as they had no legal requirement to redundancy pay .
15 The problem arose when the government decided to clear the forest along the Sugihan river for a colonisation scheme .
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