Example sentences of "[adv prt] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislature , both the Assembly and the Senate , enjoyed huge powers of death by committee and were easily able to bring down governments , which resulted in the inevitable instability . |
| 2 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 3 | Both the Right and the Left share the same awe at the thought of the miners on the move — they bring down governments , they are the labour movement 's prizefighters , our local heroes . |
| 4 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 5 | In over 35 countries police and military officers , either in uniform or working in death squads , gunned down government critics ; in over 20 countries opponents either disappeared or were held incommunicado . |
| 6 | Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " . |
| 7 | The response of the security forces to the peaceful demonstrations had been generally restrained , but on July 23 , following several unsuccessful attempts by the opposition to take over government buildings and install its " ministers " in office , Ratsiraka declared a state of emergency , including a night-time curfew , and issued warrants for the arrest of opposition leaders . |
| 8 | The difficulties this attitude could cause the colonists were already becoming clear before William had completed the work of setting up governments in North America that would co-operate with him . |
| 9 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 10 | We will start in our first parliamentary session with a Freedom of Information Act which will open up government to the people . |
| 11 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 12 | I have asked to take the lead for setting up Government Division . |
| 13 | Petre also promised to set up government commissions ( i ) to investigate alleged military counter-revolutionary activity during December 1989 , especially in Timisoara ; and ( ii ) to " solve " the military 's problems . |
| 14 | Although sharp disagreements remained on the question of agricultural trade and on opening up government procurement to foreign companies , there was agreement on ( i ) curbs on general industrial and commercial subsidies ; ( ii ) speedy resolution of intellectual property rights ; and ( iii ) special treatment for special service sectors such as air transport and shipping . |
| 15 | In reaction to what the BJP described as an " unconstitutional threat to dismiss the UP government " by union Home Minister S. B. Chavan , BJP members of parliament had declined to join the all-party delegation , and instead sent a separate BJP delegation to Ayodhya the following day . |
| 16 | He also ruled out Government assistance for caterers who needed to buy equipment to comply with the Food Safety Act , as part of an election giveaway . |
| 17 | The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met . |
| 18 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 19 | Many owned coffee plantations , and not unnaturally were more concerned with the success of their investments than with carrying out government policy . |
| 20 | Mr Henderson , 54 , Mr Allen , 47 , and Mr Abraham , 46 , — ex-directors of Coventry-based Matrix Churchill — said Mr Clark was not alone in carrying out Government policy . |
| 21 | These set out Government policy and provide updated information on the 1981 Minerals Act . |
| 22 | STANDARD LEVEL OF SERVICE : These amounts are the Government 's view , for the purpose of sharing out Government Standard Spending Grant ( see next note ) , of the appropriate level of spending for the authorities in your area to enable them to provide broadly a standard level of service , taking into account the particular circumstances of the area . |
| 23 | Is it true that , while refusing to be interrogated by the House and on television , he is carrying out government by press conference , as he is holding one tomorrow ? |
| 24 | The Bank has a major role in the foreign exchange market as it is responsible for carrying out government policy with regard to the exchange rate . |
| 25 | ES is responsible for carrying out Government policies . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman actually threatened some of the staff in that hospital for carrying out Government policy . |
| 27 | He claimed in the press that it set out Government policy , but it was a million miles away from our policy . |
| 28 | Soviet authority had already collapsed in two towns in south-east Azerbaijan close to the Iranian border — Jalilabad , where Popular Front activists had seized control on Dec. 29 after driving out government and CP officials and police , and Lenkoran , where similar events occurred on Jan. 11 . |
| 29 | Agreement was also reached with all main Western , including European Community ( EC ) , steel-producing countries to phase out government subsidies for steel . |
| 30 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |