Example sentences of "[noun] government [unc] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy . |
| 2 | The feebleness of the Wilson government 's attempts to deal with national economic growth or industrial relations in the 1960s discredited the ideals of the planner and central state still further . |
| 3 | In 1968 the Wilson government 's attempts to reform the House of Lords , taking voting rights away from hereditary peers and creating a nominated group of voting life-peers , fell victim to sabotage from both Left and Right . |
| 4 | The UK government 's plans to allow limited use of 44-tonne lorries on British roads have been attacked by environmental groups as being open to widespread abuse . |
| 5 | This should be seen in the context of the UK Government 's attempts to salvage the Maastricht Treaty by emphasising the principle of subsidiarity as well as in the context of the UK 's general hostility to regulation of labour and social affairs matters at EC level . |
| 6 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 7 | The US government 's efforts to create a long-term repository for nuclear waste have received a setback with the announcement that a deep underground salt chamber in New Mexico provisionally selected for this purpose may be close to collapse . |
| 8 | The Russian Federation government 's attempts to prevent the referendum included appeals from President Boris Yeltsin and a ruling by the Russian Constitutional Court that the wording of the referendum question was unconstitutional . |
| 9 | Faced with the intense competition of foreign trade competitors , employers resorted to attempts to reduce monetary wages , an action which was given an additional downward twist by the Baldwin government 's decisions to return to the gold standard and to reflate the pound in 1925 . |
| 10 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been competitors , employers resorted to attempts to reduce monetary wages , an action which was given an additional downward twist by the Baldwin government 's decisions to return to the gold standard and to reflate the pound in 1925 . |