Example sentences of "which [art] [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant . |
| 2 | Our demands are those which the present government has always denied us — the right to organize , wide participation in the political life of the country , access to education , together with our social rights , good health , decent housing , and voluntary maternity . |
| 3 | The most recent surveys showed that 72 per cent of homeworkers earned less than the statutory minimum established by the Wages Council ( which the present government is hoping to abolish ) . |
| 4 | In view of my right hon. and learned Friend 's comments about the £5 billion cost of implementing that programme , will he give a categorical assurance that there is no way , in any circumstances , in which the present Government — or any Government if they were acting responsibly — could possibly accept the social charter ? |
| 5 | Since the rail network has plenty of spare capacity and is environmentally more benign , the logical solution is either to subsidise rail fares , which the present government is obviously unwilling to do , or to increase the cost of motoring to the point where rail has the advantage ( and since rail is sometimes less convenient , it needs the edge on price ) . |
| 6 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 7 | The key issue was the precise timing and stage at which the Irish government would enter such talks . |
| 8 | Discussion centred on the issue of the point at which the Irish government should enter the envisaged inter-party talks . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 10 | In an effort to resolve the dispute it was agreed on May 26 that a subcommittee would consider the point at which the Irish government would take part in the talks . |
| 11 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 12 | After all , almost the whole of industrial Britain became a controlled , smoke free area under the Clean Air Acts , of which the current government is so proud some 30 years later . |
| 13 | Ending the commercialisation of aid which the current Government has practised and which substantially reduces its value to the world 's poorest . |
| 14 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |
| 15 | Mr Hurd recalled the last Lib-Lab pact in the late 1970s as ‘ a period of shabbiness and indecision ’ and a time without social or economic achievement in which the Labour government lived from hand to mouth . |
| 16 | On this the National Consumer Council , the body which the Labour Government created in 1975 as an independent voice for the consumer , agreed . |
| 17 | Faced with the need to take some action , and willing to restrict the death penalty but not to abandon it completely , a classic step on the road to abolition , the Government turned again to the idea of categorizing murders which the Labour Government had attempted , fruitlessly , as a way out of a previous Parliamentary impasse in 1948 . |
| 18 | First , all the groups to whom the hon. Gentleman has referred were hit much harder by the policies of high taxation and raging inflation over which the Labour Government presided . |
| 19 | Inspection of Table 4.2 shows that those techniques already practised by local farmers , which the colonial government also encouraged and wished to extend , were accepted . |
| 20 | In many others , the new governments were faced with a situation of having either virtually no press worthy of the name or merely one in which the colonial government or settler point of view had been dominant . |
| 21 | After Target was closed in the early eighties , NCCK launched a monthly magazine , Beyond , which the Kenyan government subsequently banned in 1988 , after the magazine criticised the queue-voting electoral system , which the government had introduced . |
| 22 | First — The Spanish Government and Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza will create a new Private Cultural Foundation under Spanish law , domiciled in Madrid , to which the Spanish Government will provide rent-free ( for the same parallel term of years as the loan mentioned in Clause Three below ) the use of the Villahermosa Palace and which will be endowed by the Spanish Government with sufficient capital for the refurbishment of the Palace and to provide all necessary financial resources to ensure the independence of the Foundation and to ensure that it is able to meet all its artistic and curatorial commitments . |
| 23 | The first stage of a 60,000-hectare ( 150,000-acre ) industrial park , in which the Indonesian government has invested $570m , has just opened on the Indonesian island of Batam . |
| 24 | He added that he did wish , however , to impress upon the Department the importance which the Korean Government and people attached to their apparent exclusion from the defense plans of the United States in the Far East . |
| 25 | The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme . |
| 26 | In 1985 , for example , of total federal revenue of 686 billion dinars , 110 billion dinars was derived from customs duties , 264 billion dinars from basic sales tax ( of which the federal government was entitled at that time to one-half ) , and 251 billion dinars from transfers from the republics and provinces . |
| 27 | By early February 1991 he had conceded that taxes would have to be raised if Germany 's 1991 borrowing requirement were to be kept to DM140,000 million or 5 per cent of GNP ( of which the federal government share would be DM70,000 million ) . |
| 28 | By Sept. 30 the Federal Assembly would pass a law , which the federal government had already approved , legalising four possible ways of winding up the federation : by referendum ; by agreement between the two republics ; by the unilateral secession of one republic ; or by a simple declaration of the Assembly . |
| 29 | Under the present system they can exercise only the powers which the central government chooses to delegate to them . |
| 30 | This is very clear from the results of the monetary union with East Germany and the subsequent massive mopping up operation in which the central government is engaging . |