Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the government in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 2 | I am now shown correctly in Hansard as having voted for the Government in Division 15 . |
| 3 | He was a founder member of the France-Iraq Friendship Association , and within the Socialist Party ( PS ) he led the small " socialism and republic " faction which had voted against the government in the parliamentary vote on the Gulf war on Jan. 16 [ see above ] ; the existence of this faction , together with size of France 's Arab community and the strength of its pacifist movement , had been seen as domestic factors influencing Mitterrand 's eleventh-hour diplomatic initiatives . |
| 4 | Noting that Shawcross had voted with the Government in not opposing the Lords amendments on 22 July , Attlee said that he was very grateful as he knew the strength of Shawcross 's views . |
| 5 | Arthit Kamlang-ek , an influential former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces and Army C.-in-C. , had since May 1988 been leader of the Thai People party , whose 17 members had voted with the government in the July no-confidence motion , and which thus now joined the ruling coalition . |
| 6 | In developments related to the presidential election , two ministers resigned from the government in the weeks leading up to the vote ; the leader of the Solidarity parliamentary group , the Citizens ' Parliamentary Faction ( OKP ) , Bronislaw Geremek , was replaced by Mieczyslaw Gil ; and , reflecting workers ' disenchantment with economic conditions , transport workers and miners staged several strikes . |
| 7 | Yameogo had been appointed Minister of Agriculture in July 1991 , but had resigned from the government in August [ see p. 38424 ] . |
| 8 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 9 | The sale of part of the assets of BP oil owned by the government in Howe 's first budget did little more than continue the policy of Denis Healey 's Labour budget of 1976 . |
| 10 | Once Shawcross had agreed to lead for the Government in the debate on the compromise clause , the possibility of a damaging resignation receded . |
| 11 | Just before the men were charged , Le Monde published a confidential document prepared for the government in 1989 showing that some 360,000 people had been infected with blood contaminated by hepatitis because of inadequate testing of blood donors between 1980 and 1988 , when compulsory tests were introduced . |
| 12 | Erm written to the government in U K bank about the bank propose new foreign policy . |
| 13 | This measure came largely in response to suggestions made to the government in April by representatives of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 14 | On April 9 the National Assembly adopted the 1992 budget presented by the government in March [ see p. 38830 ] . |
| 15 | The majority of these recommendations were accepted by the Government in a policy document in 1989 entitled Caring for People ( Cm. 849 ) . |
| 16 | The meeting was the first of its kind , and reflected the " cross-XXXX departmental " responsibility for the environment accepted by the government in the white paper published in September [ see ED 39 ] . |
| 17 | Cell 4/31 shows that a substantial issue of company securities was in fact made by the government in 1987 and the same picture would be revealed in the 1986 flow of funds matrix . |
| 18 | Many of the suggestions made by the Government in the citizens charter give us an opportunity to contribute our own ideas to what should go into the citizens charter and for those ideas to expand and to grow as a result of the kernel in the programme that the Government have produced . |
| 19 | He said that both legislation and the voluntary scheme fulfilled pledges made by the government in its 1990 environment White Paper . |
| 20 | RENT arrears among council tenants are reaching record levels , mainly because of rent increases and housing benefit reductions imposed by the Government in April last year , according to the Audit Commission for Local Authorities . |
| 21 | In particular they agreed that they had entered into private compensation deals with their larger investors , in contravention of a voluntary self-regulation agreement imposed by the government in December 1989 after the Recruit scandal [ for which see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] , paying a total of 43,500 million yen ( about US$315,000,000 ) to 78 clients between March 1990 and March 1991 , to make up for trading losses resulting from their investment advice . |
| 22 | There were personal setbacks , as when her close political confidant , Cecil Parkinson , had to resign from the government in October 1983 after a sex scandal involving his former secretary . |
| 23 | It looked a classic case for the Independent Living Fund ( before new claims were abolished by the government in December 1992 ) to pay for a package of care and support which would have helped her cope . |
| 24 | It is much more substantial than the policies produced by the Government in their papers on overseas development . |
| 25 | The attractions of a sea-to-sea waterway had taxed the brains of both James Watt ( q.v. ) and John Rennie before Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) was commissioned by the Government in 1802 to construct the canal . |
| 26 | Moreover , Kebin and Kaiguo ( 1989 ) describe the measures suggested by the Project of Protective Forest System which was approved by the government in 1978 to improve conditions in northern China . |
| 27 | Ministers can not vote against the government in the House of Commons ; nor can a PPS . |
| 28 | The Labour party has announced it will vote against the Government in the Maastrict debate . |
| 29 | Tory rebels claim up to 40 MPs will vote against the government in the Maastricht Treaty debate . |
| 30 | However , the party leader , Alex Salmond , challenged Labour MPs to vote against the Government in forthcoming European votes ; they would refuse to do so , in spite of having a chance to defeat the Conservatives , he claimed . |