Example sentences of "government [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 2 | Yet it was privately admitted in Washington that American interests might suffer if British and Commonwealth forces ultimately failed to contain the Indonesian threat , and in December 1964 both governments agreed to acknowledge the importance of each other 's military efforts " in support of legitimate governments in South-East Asia , particularly in Malaysia and South Vietnam " . |
| 3 | But governments failed to prevent the expansion of credit . |
| 4 | Moreover , succeeding governments tried to operate the economy at lower levels of demand and therefore at higher levels of unemployment in order to reduce inflationary pressures . |
| 5 | Figures from the Central Statistical Office suggest that some of the changes implemented by Conservative governments helped to reverse the trend in redistribution of income from the rich , so that it became redistribution to the rich . |
| 6 | In 1945 both the US and Soviet governments raced to recognize the new Jewish state . |
| 7 | Iraq 's Scud attacks on Tel Aviv brought delirious joy , while governments struggled to contain the emotions . |
| 8 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 9 | British governments continued to accept the need for collective security under the Covenant of the League of Nations . |
| 10 | Successive Liberal and Conservative governments had lost the battle for the state medical regulation of women , largely as a result of sustained feminist opposition . |
| 11 | Belgium subsequently insisted that one third of the waste be returned to Germany , where , however , there are no licensed storage facilities for it : opposition from the public and state governments had prevented the federal government from pursuing its plan to set up licensed reprocessing sites . |
| 12 | Both Labour and Conservative Governments had taken the view that change would cause a fierce political storm , so no one did anything . |
| 13 | Their role and legitimation were further strengthened during the war since governments tended to incorporate the associations in order to assist in war-time economic administration . |
| 14 | This was clearly the case in Soviet relations with Egypt , which became the USSR 's most important ally in the Middle East after the mid-1950s when Western governments refused to finance the Aswan Dam . |
| 15 | When Arab governments refused to provide the subsidies promised to the late government Husayn turned to the United States , which provided a $10 million emergency grant , and a further $30 million during the course of the year . |
| 16 | From the mid-1970s successive governments attempted to alleviate the crisis by curbing public expenditure . |
| 17 | Thatcher 's government sought to extend the financial incentives , encouraging doctors to undertake preventative health checks and reach immunisation and vaccination targets . |
| 18 | The government sought to offset the immediate effects of the price increases by a special bonus to public sector employees , equivalent to their July salary . |
| 19 | A paper presented to the meeting by the British government sought to draw the attention of pro-whaling nations to the attractions of whale-linked tourism , arguing that preserving whales could provide greater financial benefits than killing them . |
| 20 | As the Government sought to balance the books in a nation where the chances of finding a job are equal to that of winning the pools , the unthinkable became the unavoidable . |
| 21 | In the 1960s the government sought to reduce the animist religious confusion in the nation — and centralize its own authority by abolishing the practice of all but five officially sanctioned religions . |
| 22 | The next day he called a halt to the anti-Suchinda rallies , but warned that they would be resumed if the government failed to implement the constitutional changes . |
| 23 | Candidates reportedly supported by the government failed to dislodge the supporters of the Chamber 's chairman Abdel Aziz Saqr , who won all but one of the 24 board seats . |
| 24 | In Iraq the government failed to deliver the autonomy it promised in 1970 , and punished the Kurds after their rebellions in 1974–75 and 1986–88 with executions , mass deportations and the demolition of thousands of villages . |
| 25 | The decision to lift the 1986 embargo on iron , steel and gold coins was taken in April 1991 [ see p. 38132 ] but implementation was delayed when the minority Danish government failed to win the necessary parliamentary support [ see p. 38318 ] . |
| 26 | The World Bank had in March 1989 suspended disbursements on $350,000,000 of sector reform loans after the government failed to meet the conditions attached to them [ see p. 36613 ] . |
| 27 | Peace was restored after the government agreed to abandon the tax increases . |
| 28 | Facing much the same problem in 1929 , a Labour government agreed to introduce the Alternative Vote ( AV ) . |
| 29 | The Government agreed to address the problem of falling access to justice and they established a review of legal aid eligibility . |
| 30 | The miners returned to work on Feb. 13 , 1989 , after the government agreed to discuss the demands presented by the ( left-wing ) Confederation Democratique du Travail , to which the miners reportedly belonged . |