Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] government had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the end of the 1980s record balance-of-payments deficits , rising inflation , a weakened pound , and failure to impose the monetary disciplines on which the government had prided itself , suggested that most of the old problems were still present . |
| 2 | While Lord Scarman was careful not to enter the political dispute between the Government and the Labour party on issues such as unemployment and housing , his call for more direct action to deal with these problems , along with racial disadvantage , posed a challenge to the political legitimacy of the policies which the Government had followed from 1979 onwards . |
| 3 | The only sense in which the government had an overall strategy was in its continued determination to maintain full employment so far as was consistent with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 4 | The council tax is proving less unpopular : appeals against the valuations of property for the new tax , the best measure of opposition , will fall well short of the 950,000 for which the government had allowed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There then followed the abandonment of the gold standard , which the Government had been formed to preserve , several weeks of parliamentary rancour , and a dissolution on 7 October for an election on 27 October . |
| 7 | Even more obnoxious were the charges to be made at Shipping Offices at each engagement and discharge and the disciplinary regulations which the government had appended to the Act . |
| 8 | This was slightly less than earlier forecasts to which the Government had responded by announcing a major prison-building programme . |
| 9 | He advanced money , in ever-growing sums , especially during the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars ; and showed great skill in securing repayment , in discounting operations , and in profiting from the high rates of interest which the government had to pay for ready cash . |
| 10 | It was only in the late 1980s that public expenditure as a proportion of the national product fell below that which the government had inherited in 1979 . |
| 11 | But while he was there , he also carried out some private research into the potential for amusement machines in pubs which the government had just legalised . |
| 12 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 13 | Delegates approved new party statutes and a political programme to contest parliamentary and presidential elections which the government had confirmed would take place in July and August respectively . |
| 14 | The rally , which the government had declared illegal , was nonetheless attended by some 6,000 at a stadium in Nairobi . |
| 15 | They demanded fulfilment of promises of improved living and working conditions , which the government had made in settlement of strikes in July 1989 [ see pp. 36826-27 ] , the resignation of the USSR Council of Ministers because of its handling of the economy , and the depoliticization of the Army , police , judiciary and education system . |
| 16 | The decision on membership , for which the government had applied in mid-1989 , followed investigations into national commercial practices and negotiations with 12 countries to ensure that the requirements of GATT would be met . |
| 17 | The project was to be administered by a joint private- and public-sector company in which the government had a minority interest . |
| 18 | His appointment illustrated the importance which management of the agricultural sector had assumed after the publication of the Landell Mills report [ see below ] and the allegations of mismanagement made against the Caribbean Sea Island Cotton Company ( Cariscot ) , in which the government had a 33 per cent holding . |
| 19 | In September 1988 Mendes had saved from development some land owned by the Alves family which the government had then declared a reserve . |
| 20 | The military pardons dissipated the public support which the government had gained by its suppression of a military coup on Dec. 3 [ ibid . ] . |
| 21 | On June 21 , parliament passed the Internal Security and Intimidation Bill to reform the 1982 Internal Security Act under which the government had powers to ban organizations , to restrict publications and individuals , and to detain terrorism suspects without trial . |
| 22 | There was a month of relative peace in the townships following the " peace summit " which the government had called on May 24 [ see p. 38178 ] . |
| 23 | No details had yet been published of an economic recovery plan which the government had announced in January . |
| 24 | Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo announced on July 22 that an agreement which the government had signed with the " Paris Club " group of creditor countries would allow Argentina to restructure part of its official debt . |
| 25 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |
| 26 | The credibility of the European Community scheme under which clean beaches are awarded a " blue flag " has been seriously undermined after it emerged that blue flags had been awarded to 11 beaches in Italy which the government had previously registered as too dirty for bathing . |
| 27 | This led to serious confrontations in steel , coal and the railways , on which the government had a major influence . |
| 28 | This called into question the government 's chances of winning a two-thirds majority , which it would need to make constitutional changes , and which every government had achieved hitherto , except in the 1969 elections . |
| 29 | Whatever the Government had done , it was wrong , and it had not done enough . |
| 30 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |