Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] government [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the conference was forced to accept the need to organize a campaign to compel the National government to drop its policy of non-intervention , an action which led to the formation of the Spain Campaign Committee . |
| 2 | Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax . |
| 3 | The RSFSR , Ukraine and Kazakhstan had objected to allowing the federal government to impose taxes , demanding that the union budget should be financed from taxes collected by individual republics . |
| 4 | On June 17 European Community ( EC ) industry ministers approved proposals allowing the German government to subsidize eastern German shipbuilding yards until December 1993 by up to 36 per cent of estimated turnover after restructuring ( the usual EC maximum being 9 per cent ) . |
| 5 | a ) Help with clearing land mines ; b ) Targeting rural poverty ; c ) Helping the Cambodian government to make the best use of aid and d ) The UK should use its influence in the United Nations to ensure the fullest support for the move to peace and democracy in Cambodia , and specifically should call for the establishment of a Human Rights Rapporteur for Cambodia reporting directly to the United Nations Security Council . |
| 6 | Set up in I 978 with the twin missions of keeping Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon and helping the Lebanese government to control the Palestinians there , it was never given the strength to do either . |
| 7 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 8 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 9 | The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry demanded an investigation and asked the Bulgarian government to comply with undertakings to provide flights home for Vietnamese workers once their contracts expired . |
| 10 | President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 . |
| 11 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council were involved in an effort to increase the flexibility of the Turkish Cypriot position , and , like the US administration , also asked the Turkish government to apply pressure in this direction . |
| 12 | On March 18 the public prosecutor in Genoa formally asked the Greek government to extradite Khaled . |
| 13 | According to US officials cited in the press , the Soviet Union had also pressed the Ethiopian government to negotiate . |
| 14 | In May 1989 Judge Baltasar Garzón travelled to Paris to question the senior ETA leaders Santiago Arróspide Sarasola ( " Santi Potros " — arrested in Anglet in September 1987 ) , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea ( " Josu Ternera " — arrested on Jan. 11 , 1989 , in Bayonne — see p. 36406 , where the date is wrongly given as Jan. 12 ) , Elena Beloki Resa ( arrested with Urrutikoetxea ) and Mariano Estebán González Betolaza ( arrested on April 14 in Montpellier , southern France ) ; in July Garzón requested the Spanish government to begin extradition proceedings against Arróspide for his part in organizing a May 1987 attack on the Madrid Civil Guard headquarters in which one person was killed . |
| 15 | Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 . |
| 16 | This was one factor which led the new government to consider repealing development charges . |
| 17 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 18 | Subsequent appeals to the courts by disappointed students led the federal government to devise complex formulas that fix minima for the number of students each university department must take . |
| 19 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 20 | The collapse of communism in eastern Europe led the Austrian government to reassess its traditional foreign policy role as a bridge between East and West . |
| 21 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British Government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by calling a moratorium on weapons testing , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 22 | The church leaders ' letters aim to encourage the British government to return to its former policy of supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty , as the French , US and Russian governments have done . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 24 | A controversial bill empowering the Japanese government to send members of the country 's Self Defence Forces ( SDF ) overseas to assist in UN peacekeeping operations was finally approved by the Diet on June 15 . |
| 25 | I want the National Government to get every vote possible . ’ |
| 26 | The new rule also allows the federal government to consult state officials on any regional scientific concerns . |
| 27 | Thus , since nothing in the Constitution allows the Federal government to create a welfare system , whereby payments ( or payments in kind ) are made to the residents of the various States , a welfare state system could only be established either through Constitutional Amendment ( which would be difficult both to write and then to enact ) or through successful negotiation with the State governments . |
| 28 | The memorandum committed the Japanese government to revise the application of the alien registration law to Koreans in order to replace the fingerprinting requirement with a record of family registration . |
| 29 | The Court advised the German government to pay compensation to former owners . |
| 30 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |