Example sentences of "government [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his visit Boutros-Ghali urged governments to provide the necessary funding for the UN peace operation , which , he claimed , was threatened by lack of money . |
| 2 | It is hoped that the research will help governments to choose the appropriate mix of manpower and area-oriented policies . |
| 3 | Pay-offs raise the cost of development projects and , worse , encourage governments to choose the wrong ones . |
| 4 | They want their governments to do the same , especially on defence . |
| 5 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 6 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 7 | However , as experience in family planning programmes throughout the world has shown , a lack of academic knowledge was not the major problem in achieving their modest attainments , but the inability of governments to shift the major socio-economic variables which encourage the continuation of large families . |
| 8 | The smaller portable artefact , by contrast , lends itself to being exported to areas outside of its site of discovery , and thereby provides evidence for more abstract legiti-mations ; for example , the claim by colonial governments to represent the historical legacy of a sequence of great accomplishments is subsumed and given meaning by the concept of civilization . |
| 9 | Co-chairmen Robin Wilson and Professor Simon Lee appealed to the two Governments to break the political deadlock and help end the violence by promoting new talks based on the findings of the Opsahl Commission . |
| 10 | They may therefore be able to force governments to examine the economic consequences of bowing too readily to environmental prejudices . |
| 11 | It is the policies of successive governments to discipline the unemployed . |
| 12 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 13 | That Sirteco was obliged to do no more than inform the foreign commerce ministry that the waste disposal contract had been paid for illustrates the failure of the Italian government to monitor the international activities of waste disposal companies . |
| 14 | Today Mrs McNee will be among low income families , pensioners and the disabled campaigning in George Square , Glasgow , for more help from the Government to combat the cold weather . |
| 15 | As well as pressing the government to support the proposed directive , it also supports the introduction of a model Tobacco Act , which will cover sales of tobacco to children , restrictions on smoking in public places , better education on the health risks of smoking , increased taxation levels and more provision of smoking cessation resources . |
| 16 | However , despite all the emergencies , in the first instance , the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia ( of 18 November 1917 ) boldly committed the new Bolshevik Government to support the national self-determination of Russia 's peoples ‘ even to the point of separation and the formation of an independent State ’ . |
| 17 | We therefore called on the Government to suspend the 14th Round pending the results of a Strategic Environmental Assessment of all aspects of the search for oil and gas around the coastline of Wales , but to no avail . |
| 18 | JAPAN 'S trade surplus surged in February , intensifying pressure on the government to stimulate the faltering economy and boost imports . |
| 19 | It is simply a figure calculated by the government to meet the basic needs of rent , food , clothing , heating and day-today expenses , plus , when necessary , payments for what are called ‘ exceptional needs ’ , such as the renewal of bedding , furniture or household equipment , and payments for ‘ special expenses ’ , such as extra heating , special diet , or essential domestic help ( see leaflet SB1 for details of current scale rates laid down by parliament , and other information ) . |
| 20 | The increased powers of the Secretary of State over a centrally directed system of curriculum and assessment and , indeed , over teachers ' conditions of service , make it ‘ safe ’ for the government to increase the managerial responsibilities of schools . |
| 21 | During the February 1975 House of Commons debate on plans by the Wilson Government to increase the civil list allowances to the royal family , Kinnock , then an MP of five years standing , launched into a characteristically blustering attack on ‘ the senior executives of what I may call ‘ the Crown Limited ’ , who were ‘ outrageously overpaid ’ . |
| 22 | The Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) was created in 1975 by the Labour government to revive the Scottish economy , and to co-ordinate industrial intervention with environmental improvements . |
| 23 | In the context of the new community care legislation , organisations of disabled people are increasing the pressure on central and local government to provide the necessary housing and support services required to enable disabled people to fully participate in society . |
| 24 | ‘ The prospects have been greatly improved , ’ he reported breathlessly , ‘ by the promise of the British government to provide the main roads if the stage of mass settlement is reached . ’ |
| 25 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |
| 26 | This exposé and the Salvation Army spectacle were symptomatic of a carefully organized campaign by purity workers and feminists to press the Liberal government to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Bill , which had been before Parliament since 1883 . |
| 27 | Variables such as the degree of ‘ distance ’ between state enterprises and central state agencies , the internal coherence of management and unions , the ability to inflict costs on government , and conversely of government to bear the political costs of disruption , will affect the way objectives are transmitted ; as will wider relationships between social classes and the state . |
| 28 | It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter . |
| 29 | It also claimed that the revenue generated from the industry had provided Nauru with " the highest per capita income in the world and would have allowed the Nauruan government to rehabilitate the mined areas if it so wished . " |
| 30 | When he spoke about north Yorkshire , my right hon. Friend the Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) said that it would be unwise for any Government to impose the same pattern on every part of England because the differences between one part of the country and another are so great . |