Economic conditions worsened when Hurricane Ivan hit the country in September 2004 ; progress in fiscal consolidation was impeded as government revenues fell and policy priority was shifted to post-hurricane relief.

As the economic began to recover in 2003, the government began to take steps for fiscal consolidation, and the fiscal deficit fell to 4. 8 percent of GDP.

But progress in fiscal consolidation was impeded in 2004 as the government policy changed abruptly to post-hurricane relief.

In 1995 the Hezb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Iranian-backed Hezb-i Wahdat as well as Rashid Dostum's Junbish forces were defeated militarily in the capital Kabul by forces of the interim government under Massoud who subsequently tried to initiate a nationwide political process with the goal of national consolidation and democratic elections, also inviting the Taliban to join the process.

After some consolidation, six companies controlled monopolies of their regions, subject to close control by the government in terms of fares, finances, and even minute technical details.

During the first period of succession and further internal consolidation under the Druk Desi government, there was conflict with Tibet and Sikkim.

In recent years, there have been often rancorous discussions of the potential of a consolidation of unincorporated Shelby County and Memphis into a metropolitan government.

Among the many items that made little progress due to the political stalemate were a stalled arms procurement bill, which would have advanced defense capabilities of the Republic of China through the purchase of weaponry, such as sub-hunting P-3 Orions, from the US government, and banking reform legislation, which would have helped in the consolidation of the many banks in the Republic of China, none of which hold even 10 % shares of the local market.

The most sweeping reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947 was the consolidation of transportation agencies into a cabinet-level Department of Transportation.

His platform was based on the restoration of order, strong government, social consolidation, and national greatness.

BAC was formed following a warning from government that it expected consolidation in the aircraft, guided weapons and engine industries.

From 1959 – 1961 the British government forced the consolidation of 20 or so British aviation firms into three larger groups with the threat of withheld contracts and the lure of project funding.

In 2005, the cities of Republic and Brookline consolidated as Missouri State laws allow after a vote of the residents of both communities approved the consolidation with Republic taking over all aspects of city government.

Proponents of the consolidation measure asserted that when the merger is completed, the new municipality of Princeton will save $ 3. 2 million dollars as a result of some scaled down services including layoffs of 15 government workers including 9 police officers ( however, the measure itself does not create any line item cost reduction or layoffs ).

Since 2000, Parramatta has seen the consolidation of its role as a government centre with the relocation of agencies such as the New South Wales Police Force headquarters and Sydney Water,

Hongwu attempted, and largely succeeded in, the consolidation of control over all aspects of government, so that no other group could gain enough power to overthrow him.

In 1936 a further Mexican government repair and consolidation program was begun under José Erosa Peniche.

But in the first wave of government consolidation following the abolishment of the fiefdom system and construction of prefectures in 1871, it became known by the name of Myodo Prefecture.

But in the second wave of government consolidation, on September 5, 1875, the Sanuki Region separated to form modern day Kagawa Prefecture.

In 1906 the government imposed shrine consolidation regulations under which all shrines in a village or a town should be merged.

Parliamentary Counsel to Government draft government Bills ( including Bills to amend the Constitution of Ireland, revision Bills, amendments to Bills, consolidation and restatement Bills ).

Unlike private sector debt consolidation, student loan consolidation does not incur any fees for the borrower ; private companies make money on student loan consolidation by reaping subsidies from the federal government.

The cornerstone of Diệm's counterinsurgency effort was the Strategic Hamlet Program, which called for the consolidation of 14, 000 villages of South Vietnam into 11, 000 secure hamlets, each with its own houses, schools, wells, and watchtowers.

One of the cities Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was formed in 1963 by a political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk with the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691.

Mortons Gap had a community school built in the 1930s and housed a high school until the high school's consolidation to South Hopkins High School in 1955.

Henry II of England, who reigned over the Angevin Empire, invaded Ireland to control Strongbow, who he feared was becoming a threat to the stability of his own kingdom on its western fringes ( there had been earlier fears that Saxon refugees might use either Ireland or Flanders as a base for a counter-offensive after 1066 ); much of the later Plantagenet consolidation of South Wales was in furtherance of holding open routes to Ireland.

This school was no longer used after the consolidation of community schools into a larger county school corporation ( North and South Decatur Schools ).

The IFP's manifesto seeks the resolution to a number of South African issues, especially the AIDS crisis, in addition to addressing " unemployment, crime, poverty and corruption and prevent the consolidation of a one-party state " ( IFP official website ).

Upon consolidation with Brooklyn in 1854, Districts one ( North Side ) and two ( South Side ) became, respectively, Wards 14 and 13 of the City of Brooklyn.

There had been much consolidation of breweries in South Australia since Coopers was established, and the South Australian Brewing Company and Coopers & Sons were the only breweries remaining in Adelaide.

) The North Plainfield store closed as part of the North Edison / South Plainfield store consolidation.

Marie Railroad ( MStP & SSM ), which was commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of that company with two other CP subsidiaries, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad and Wisconsin Central Railroad.

Because of the scarcity of land in central Seoul, as well as the consolidation of U. S. Forces throughout the Korean Peninsula, the U. S. and South Korean governments have agreed to relocate the facility out of Seoul to Pyeongtaek by 2013.

The conversion of many broad gauge lines to standard gauge meant that this was a period of consolidation but in 1876 the amalgamation of the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway locomotives saw 180 locomotives added to the GWR's fleet.

Faced with a change in consumer shopping patterns, the consolidation of the department store industry, the existence of too many malls fragmenting the greater Los Angeles retail marketplace, lack of highway access and competition from the neighboring Nordstrom-anchored South Bay Galleria that opened in 1985, Del Amo began to suffer.

In 1963, after a referendum of South Norfolk and Norfolk County's voters and the approval of the Virginia General Assembly, South Norfolk and almost all of Norfolk County were joined by consolidation and reorganized as the new City of Chesapeake.

The town of Burra was officially formed in 1940 by a notice in the South Australian Government Gazette with the consolidation of the mostly culturally-based townships of Redruth, Aberdeen, New Aberdeen, Hampton, Copperhouse, Kooringa, Llwchwr and Lostwithiel.

He orchestrated a program of expansion and consolidation which extended the empire from Taghaza in the North to the borders of Yatenga in the South ; and from Air in the Northeast to Futa Tooro in Senegambia.

Cooper was at the center of the nullification movement and taught South Carolina about the dangers of consolidation.

63 years later, about 20 miles away, the name of " Chesapeake " was also selected by voters for the new independent city formed by a consolidation of Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk in South Hampton Roads, and the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia came into being on January 1, 1963.

A tax-free reorganization not complying with the merger or consolidation statutes of the states involved is difficult to fit into an `` operation of law '' mold.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

The short-term use of benzodiazepines adversely affects multiple areas of cognition, the most notable one being that it interferes with the formation and consolidation of memories of new material and may induce complete anterograde amnesia.

Since the consolidation of newspaper comics by the first quarter of the 20th century, most cartoonists have used a group of assistants ( with usually one of them credited ).

For example, the formation of the modern states of Germany and Italy in the 19th century is closely associated with the wars of expansion and consolidation led by Prussia and Sardinia, respectively.

After Khrushchev's consolidation of power, the number of Central Committee meetings decreased yet again, but it increased during his later rule, and together with the Politburo, the Central Committee voted to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary in 1964.

The return of House Harkonnen to power generally is ascribed to adroit manipulation of the whale fur market and later consolidation with melange wealth from Arrakis.

Another key piece of evidence regarding SWS ’ s involvement in declarative memory consolidation is a finding that people with pathological conditions of sleep, such as insomnia, exhibit both reduction in Slow-Wave Sleep and also have impaired consolidation of declarative memory during sleep.

This in turn indicated that SWS is associated with poor declarative memory consolidation but not with age itself.

performed a study with emotional versus neutral pictures and concluded that REM sleep facilitates consolidation of emotional declarative memories.

For example, when awake, people are bombarded with mental activity which interferes with effective consolidation.

The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP ( with the exception of the British Conservatives who did not join the Party ) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right throughout the ' 90s with the acquisition of members from the Italian Forza Italia.

However, the consolidation was not unalloyed and a split emerged with the Eurosceptic MEPs who congregated in a subgroup within the group, also called the European Democrats ( ED ).

The interrelationships between volume change behavior ( dilation, contraction, and consolidation ) and shearing behavior were all connected via the theory of plasticity using critical state soil mechanics by Roscoe, Schofield, and Wroth with the publication of " On the Yielding of Soils " in 1958.

If the pores are filled with water, then the water must be squeezed out of the pores to allow volumetric compression of the soil ; this process is called consolidation.

A pro-French Batavian Republic was established ( 1795 – 1806 ), and with the consolidation of French power under Napoleon gradually turned into a French satellite state, culminating in the Kingdom of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) and later simply an imperial province.

Hasdrubal pursued a policy of consolidation of Carthage's Iberian interests, even signing a treaty with Rome whereby Carthage would not expand north of the Ebro River, so long as Rome did not expand south of it.

Massoud tried to initiate a nationwide political process with the goal of national consolidation and democratic elections, also inviting the Taliban, who by then had established their rule in the south of Afghanistan, to join the process.

Fiscal prudence has allowed for consolidation, with both the budget deficit and debt falling as a percentage of GDP.

The legal concept of a merger ( with the resulting corporate mechanics, statutory merger or statutory consolidation, which have nothing to do with the resulting power grab as between the management of the target and the acquirer ) is different from the business point of view of a " merger ", which can be achieved independently of the corporate mechanics through various means such as " triangular merger ", statutory merger, acquisition, etc.