Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settlements were lower last year , but many bosses are convinced that , despite the government 's call for single-digit increases , the high inflation rate means that wage negotiations this spring will be back to the old pattern . |
| 2 | OUTSPOKEN Dundalk politician Brendan McGahon has backed the British Government 's call for a crackdown on hardened criminals . |
| 3 | The National Assembly approved the government 's budget for 1990 after its presentation on Dec. 28 , 1989 , by Deputy Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi . |
| 4 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Harper may welcome the arrival of ‘ the Government 's market-place for education ’ . |
| 6 | The building industry , encouraged by the government 's support for owner occupation , has campaigned vigorously against planning restraints in areas of increasing demand for housing . |
| 7 | He wants to extend the government 's support for research into areas beyond disciplines related to computers . |
| 8 | The government 's support for Pol Pot 's Khmer Rouge at the United Nations . |
| 9 | Within weeks of its return to power the duplicity of the National Government 's support for sanctions became embarrassingly obvious . |
| 10 | In the West Indies pressures on land had already become intense ; the proprietors were replaced by royal governors , and external danger made the government 's support for the islands essential . |
| 11 | If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour . |
| 12 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 13 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement about the Government 's support for combined heat and power schemes . |
| 15 | Some 63 stations have already had their platforms lengthened to take the new longer train — positive evidence of the Government 's support for British Rail 's expansion programme . |
| 16 | If so , is not that due partly to the Government 's support for small firms ? |
| 17 | I assure him that the Government 's support for LEDU , and the money with which they provide it , continue year on year to match the needs of small business . |
| 18 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 19 | The motion , which fell three votes short of the necessary 289 votes , was proposed by Philippe Vasseur ( UDF ) in protest against the government 's support for reform of the European Communities ' common agricultural policy [ see p. 38931 ] . |
| 20 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 21 | As part of the government 's support for renewable energy schemes , refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) will be used in a new power station in Slough which also relies on a circulating fluidized bed , a form of clean coal technology . |
| 22 | He repeated the Government 's support for Mr Patten , who embarked on his reforms last October , and said that publication of the plans was only a first step which should not be an obstacle to talks with Beijing . |
| 23 | Mr Lang said that Scottish Office funding for the laboratory complex was firm evidence of the Government 's support for the future importance of science and technology . |
| 24 | Up to now , it has been run by the government 's centre for information systems , the Central Computer & Telecommunications Agency . |
| 25 | A second lesson — or cautionary note — bears directly on the government 's enthusiasm for separating out ‘ purchaser ’ or ‘ provider ’ roles in order to create a quasi market in social care . |
| 26 | Given the government 's enthusiasm for housing associations , it is curious that recent changes have made the associations ' task more difficult . |
| 27 | The government 's enthusiasm for roads and motor cars worries many people . |
| 28 | Within that framework , the government 's objective for public spending is to hold its rate of growth at some 1.25% per annum below the growth of the economy as a whole and thus to reduce public spending as a proportion of National Income ( see Fig. 15.2 below ) . |
| 29 | The day was saved by the Government 's willingness for the House to meet , exceptionally , in the mornings until the Committee Stage of the Bill had been completed . |
| 30 | One of the main strands of the government 's preparation for the single European market by December 1992 was its large-scale privatization programme , launched in 1989 [ see pp. 37590-91 ] . |