Example sentences of "[noun] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a major victory for the concept of affirmative action or reverse discrimination , the Supreme Court ruled by five to four on June 27 that Congress had broad powers to mandate government policies which gave preference to racial or ethnic minorities . |
| 2 | The party was criticized for not fielding more candidates and for not smoothing out policy differences with other opposition parties in order to offer voters a coalition which could be a credible alternative to the LDP government . |
| 3 | There are often three related questions : do recipient governments really want the project ? do the target beneficiaries ( such as smallholders ) within the country really want the project ? do the donor(s) , the recipient government and the beneficiaries expect roughly the same from the project ? |
| 4 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 5 | The consequences for the country , especially in the many cases where the recipient government is not able to sort out the resultant confusion , can at worst be disastrous . |
| 6 | This is something to do with grant maintained schools , do n't repair schools government comes along and lovely Mr Patten if he 's still there |
| 7 | Felipe González Márquez President of the Government ( Prime Minister ) Alfonso Guerra Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra Defence José Luis Corcuero Interior Francisco Fernández Ordóñez Foreign Affairs Carlos Solchaga Economy and Finance Enrique Múgica Herzog Justice José Claudio Aranzadi Martínez Industry and Energy *Luis Martínez Noval Labour and Social Security Javier Solana Madariaga Education and Science Joaquín Almunia Public Administration Carlos Romero Herrera Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Jorge Semprún Culture Javier Sáenz de Cosculluela Public Works José Barrionuevo Transport and Communications Julián García Vargas Health and Consumer Affairs Virgilio Zapatero Parliamentary Relations ; Secretary to the Government Matilde Fernández Social Welfare Rosa Conde de Espina Government Spokeswoman * Succeeded Manuel Chaves , who resigned on April 20 , 1990 , to seek election in June 1990 as President of the Andalucian regional government . |
| 8 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 9 | According to Sithole the aim of the front was the removal of the Mugabe government which , he said , was guilty of " unscrupulous corruption , nepotism , fraud and incompetence " . |
| 10 | Norwegian recognition of opposition government — Amnesty report |
| 11 | The report also stated that in countries where there was an armed opposition government troops were often given extensive powers and not held accountable to civilian legal authorities for their actions . |
| 12 | A Kazakh government commission was sent to Leninsk , and gave all conscripts 10 days ' leave and extra food and cigarettes . |
| 13 | On July 14 a deal was signed by the Kazakh government with a private Turkish firm to build a 1,350 megawatt power station at Aktubinsk in the north-west , to be financed by export revenue from the joint development of oilfields in the region . |
| 14 | The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites . |
| 15 | This still leaves the first topic , namely why in practice government does interfere , and the question of motivations embodied in one central group of actors not so far highlighted , the regulators themselves . |
| 16 | In the UK , however , we are all subjects of the Crown rather than citizens , or ‘ customers ’ for government services at best , and records belong to the Crown ( in practice government departments ) rather than to the public . |
| 17 | On Nov. 18 it was reported that Chadian National Front ( FNT ) fighters had handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities on the border under a reconciliation agreement with the Déby government . |
| 18 | Although the Niue political system is not based upon formal political organizations , the Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , led by Young Vivian , was established in 1987 as an unofficial opposition to the Rex government . |
| 19 | By Sept. 28-29 the Nabiyev government had conceded talks , attended by observers including the leader of the Democratic Party of Russia , Nikolai Travkin , and had agreed to key opposition demands , including suspending the communist party , nationalizing its property , lifting the state of emergency , and holding presidential elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 20 | The offer was turned down by the then philistine government ( history repeats itself ? ) and the collection returned to Tabley House . |
| 21 | The nominally independent homeland government of Transkei on Aug. 29 published a draft decree for a referendum , aimed at testing views on the homeland 's possible re-incorporation into South Africa . |
| 22 | Relations between South Africa and the homeland government were strained . |
| 23 | Earlier yesterday , Inkatha and the Kwazulu black homeland government submitted a memorandum saying that negotiators should debate federalism , violence and other constitutional principles before naming the day for the country 's first all-race election . |
| 24 | On the day that North Korea 's parliament ratified a nuclear safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency , the defector said the Pyongyang government was trying to buy time until it could produce its own nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | Recent US intelligence claims , backed by satellite photographs , suggesting that the North Korean government was developing a nuclear bomb , were vigorously denied by the Pyongyang government . |
| 26 | And the Australian Queensland Government Information Policy Board and the Malaysian Government Administrative Modernisation and Planning Unit have both endorsed X/Open 's XPG3 branding specifications as part of their open systems architecture requirements . |
| 27 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 28 | A JLP government headed by Vamuzo of the NPC was sworn in on June 19 . |
| 29 | The Issaqs have cause to hate the Mogadishu government . |
| 30 | That there is such a huge volume of uncopyrighted audio and particularly video material in circulation has been a point of issue for the US administration in their summits with the Kremlin government and resulted in a boycott by the US film companies of the recent Moscow Film Festival . |