Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 33 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
| 34 | Leaders of major political parties and organizations met in New Delhi on Nov. 23 under the auspices of the National Integration Council [ see p. 38866 ] and gave their backing to the government 's attempts to implement court orders barring construction at the disputed Babri mosque site in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where Hindu militants planned to build a Hindu temple [ see pp. 38532 ; 38682 ; 39008 ] . |
| 35 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 36 | Nevertheless , Libyans in Kufra and Ajdabiya resented the government 's attempts to secure social justice by altering the permitted range of economic activities , by changing the rules of participation in production and by introducing quantitative limits into the notion of property . |
| 37 | Encouraged by the Labour government 's attempts to restructure parts of British manufacturing industry ( see Chapter 2 , pages 25–6 concerning the formation of GEC ) , the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BLMC ) was formed in 1968 as a result of the merger of BMC and Leyland . |
| 38 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 39 | Thus , the disclosure that the Government 's attempts to broaden individual share ownership have suffered a setback came on you 've guessed it March 10 . |
| 40 | This was certainly the conclusion of contemporary intellectuals , almost all of whom thought that the government 's attempts to raise additional troops created more problems than they solved . |
| 41 | Aspects of the government 's attempts to infuse the welfare state with the spirit of competition and the market-place also ran into difficulties in both education and health . |
| 42 | The army 's deployment in the south was part of the government 's attempts to reassert control over the country under the terms of the Arab League-sponsored Taif peace accords [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 43 | The emergence of the scandal appeared to have struck a mortal blow to the government 's attempts to compact an alliance with the country 's second-largest opposition grouping , Komeito . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | In some cases the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where virtually none had existed : this was most evident in the Baltic provinces dominated by a Germanic aristocracy and in the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland . |
| 47 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | In their analysis of the Financial Management Initiative in the Civil Service Metcalfe and Richards argue that the government 's attempts to change management in government was based on the " Taylorist " view that management is about the control of routine functions within the organisation . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | As Greenwood ( 1982 , p. 259 ) noted , ‘ The Conservative Government 's attempts to extract deeper cuts from higher rather than the lower spending authorities represent a movement away ’ from the former ‘ philosophy ’ . |
| 52 | They 're protesting at the government 's proposals to allow private firms to tender for prison work . |
| 53 | Later this month , the Commission for Racial Equality will consider instigating a judicial review against the Government 's proposals to withdraw the green legal aid form in cases of political asylum and immigration . |
| 54 | Despite high-level negotiations between trades unions and government , the Solidarity trade union retained its threat of a general strike if the government 's proposals failed to meet its demands . |
| 55 | BR 's fares have been raised by 1.5 per cent above inflation during much of the 1980s and the Government 's proposals imply increases to four points over inflation in the 1990s . |
| 56 | So protests about the Government 's proposals to charge parents for extras ' such as swimming lessons and cooking materials fall wide of the mark . |
| 57 | The Conservative government 's proposals divided the whole of England and Wales into two major tiers ( plus parish councils as a third tier ) . |
| 58 | I wish to present a petition on behalf of 16,300 concerned members of the public , registering protest at the Government 's proposals to restrict the rights of asylum seekers — the proposed abolition of legal aid for asylum seekers , the extension of the restriction on airline carriers , and the suggestion that asylum seekers be fingerprinted in a discriminatory fashion . |
| 59 | I refer to the article by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn ( ‘ The wronged losing the right to redress , ’ 4 March ) concerning the Government 's proposals to reduce the financial eligibility limits for legal aid . |
| 60 | Finally , the Government 's proposals to achieve savings by cutting public sector pay are mean and cowardly . |