Example sentences of "[art] [adj] government ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it kept the Salvadorean government 's free-market economic model intact . |
| 2 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 3 | However , the agreement was suspended by the Soviet Union in early February 1990 in protest at the Israeli government 's settlement policy and an official Soviet protest was made on March 13 , 1990 . |
| 4 | Up to five hundred Soviets arrive every day , and it 's the Israeli government 's policy of settling them in the occupied territories of the West Bank that cause most Arab hostility . |
| 5 | Although the Security Council had voted unanimously to send a mission to investigate the killings , this had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |
| 6 | Previous Security Council efforts to send a mission to the territories to investigate the Temple Mount killings had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |
| 7 | According to the Washington Post of Sept. 8 , there was increasing US concern over the Israeli government 's hesitancy in liberalizing the economy , and over the continuing high level of public spending on housing and job creation necessary to encourage settlement in new areas [ see also pp. 38213 ; 38359 ] . |
| 8 | More spectacular concepts include the Spanish Government 's plan to create a multi-million pound interactive exhibit in the Spanish pavilion of the 1992 EXPO which they are hosting . |
| 9 | As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything . |
| 10 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 11 | Similarly , the Iran-Contra deal indicates not only the differences between US statements and actions over terrorism , but more revealingly the Iranian government 's willingness to engage in Realpolitik . |
| 12 | It was also understood that the Iranian government 's willingness to resume diplomatic relations stemmed from the desire among its " pragmatists " , led by the President , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , to end Iran 's diplomatic and political isolation vis-à-vis Western states . |
| 13 | Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation . |
| 14 | During his impromptu press conference at Kennebunkport on July 12 , Bush also referred to the " October Surprise " scandal , the allegation that members of the Reagan-Bush 1980 presidential election campaign met with Iranian representatives in Paris in order to promise arms sales to Iran in return for the Iranian government 's agreement not to free 52 US hostages held in Teheran until after the November 1980 presidential election . |
| 15 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 16 | about Murdoch the Australian inverted commas because that his , he was , I mean when I first , I , I do n't know the man but when I first knew about him in Australia he was a he supported the Labour government 's election in in Australia . |
| 17 | As that chapter points out , the underlying principles of the Labour government 's approach in the late 1970s — Partnership between central and local government , and consensus and cooperation — became much less fashionable in the following decade . |
| 18 | Relations with the United States had been severely strained by the Labour government 's ban on nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships entering New Zealand ports or waters . |
| 19 | Thus the Labour government 's nationalisation programme was intended also to facilitate post-war regional policy . |
| 20 | Some years later both Shinwell and Reuben Kelf-Cohen ( the civil servant who then headed the Electricity and Gas Division in the Ministry of Fuel and Power ) suggested that the Labour Government 's nationalisation plans had generally been ill-prepared , but in retrospect their complaints of the absence of nationalisation ‘ blue-prints ’ seem wide of the mark , at least in the case of electricity . |
| 21 | Haynes may have been apolitical , but his very naivete , and openness to the cultural currents of the time , underlined the difference between the Labour Government 's radicalism and the new popular movements . |
| 22 | Did , one wonders , did Mr Evans really believe that , having observed the movement 's dismissive rejection of the Labour Government 's plea for moderation in the general interest , the electorate would return the Labour Party , the vehicle for trade unions ' political aspirations , to office ? |
| 23 | The Labour Government 's hold on office was manifestly tenuous . |
| 24 | The Council 's role was largely superseded by a new top level consultative body , the Rail Council , created in 1979 in response to the Labour government 's promotion of industrial democracy in the nationalized industries . |
| 25 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 26 | The Labour Government 's pamphlet Britain 's New Deal in Europe , issued before the 1975 referendum , stated unequivocally that ‘ there was a threat to employment in Britain from the movement in the Common Market towards an Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 27 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 28 | In 1970 the Child Poverty Action Group attacked the Labour government 's failure to deal effectively with family poverty and secured a pledge from the Conservatives that family allowances would be increased . |
| 29 | There is evidence that for much of the Labour government 's period in office between 1974 and 1979 , the older urban cores were to receive greater support than other areas of the country ( Jackman and Sellars , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |