Example sentences of "government might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alt 's book on The Politics of Economic Decline has explored the nature of political business cycles in Britain alone and has dealt with the possibility that governments might run the economy to their own electoral advantage through manipulating the rate of inflation , disposable incomes , and unemployment in such a way as to rally short-run popular support at election time . |
| 2 | A lengthy statement by the Council of Representatives on Dec. 13 explained how the flexibility allowed by the new system of local government might accommodate the complexity of relationships between ethnic and linguistic groups . |
| 3 | And it was feared the Government might change the rules for claiming dole , to reduce a vast social security budget swollen by recession . |
| 4 | Companies raising private finance to build a toll road would probably need to offer at least 9–10% , given that many investors want compensation against the risk that a future government might expropriate the project or regulate it into unprofitability . |
| 5 | His statement followed speculation that the UK government might favour the end of the whaling ban . |
| 6 | Would you like to er , make any comments on er , how a change of government might effect the Westminster Press ? |
| 7 | The Government might fool the British public by denying the atrocity stories , but the Army in Ireland knew the truth , the newspapers knew , the people knew . |
| 8 | Expectations in the following week that the Libyan government might hand the two men over to the Arab League , and thus pre-empt the approval on March 31 of Resolution 748 , were disappointed . |
| 9 | It was reported on Feb. 14 that China had appointed the 40 members of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Committee to advise it on the affairs of the territory , leading to concern that the Chinese government might use the group , composed of business executives , conservative politicians and pro-Chinese sympathizers , to strengthen its control over Hong Kong in the run-up to 1997 . |