Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

The government claimed that this was a communist document, and consequently leaders of the ANC and Congress were arrested.

The Dutch, however, who had supplied the major share of the troops and money to secure the victory ( the Austrians had produced nothing of either ) claimed the government of the region till the war was over, and that after the peace they should continue to garrison Barrier Fortresses stronger than those which had fallen so easily to Louis XIV ’ s forces in 1701.

Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.

On November 26, 2006, the Chadian government claimed to have recaptured both towns, although rebels still claimed control of Biltine.

The Ivorian government claimed the attack on the French was unintentional, but the French insisted that the attack had been deliberate.

This list excludes the French-administered island of Mayotte which is claimed by the Comorian government.

The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".

During the McCarthy Era in 1947, when US Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed that the federal government and other institutions were riddled with Communists, the US House began hearings about purported communist influence in Hollywood.

The Chinese government was very quick to reject this and claimed that only it has the authority to select the next Dalai Lama.

Democide is not necessarily the elimination of entire cultural groups but rather groups within the country that the government feels need to be eradicated for political reasons and due to claimed future threats.

The government delayed announcement of the results and then claimed a highly dubious 52 % victory overall and the capture of 19 of 27 municipal councils.

In 1978, Hayek came into conflict with the Liberal Party leader, David Steel, who claimed that liberty was possible only with " social justice and an equitable distribution of wealth and power, which in turn require a degree of active government intervention " and that the Conservative Party were more concerned with the connection between liberty and private enterprise than between liberty and democracy.

Hayek claimed that a limited democracy might be better than other forms of limited government at protecting liberty but that an unlimited democracy was worse than other forms of unlimited government because " its government loses the power even to do what it thinks right if any group on which its majority depends thinks otherwise ".

The people claimed a change in the constitution and demanded a young regent of the kingdom to share the government with the King Anton.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

The Guatemalan government had to fight the pressure because although U. S. had recognized, in words, that Guatemala had the right to conduct their own politics and business, U. S. representatives also claimed that they had to interfere because UFCo was their company that had brought in a lot of profit and harming the interests of that company was harming the U. S. economy.

He claimed that Guatemalan government was not prepared to make an exception for U. S. concerning decree 900.

Shanghai claimed in particular to have a geographical advantage, and a municipal government that dreams of turning the city into China's main economic centre by as early as 2010.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

Hefner further claimed the government was out to get him because of Playboy philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.

The government elected in 2001 pledged to maintain the fundamental economic policy objectives adopted by its predecessor in 1997, specifically: retaining the Currency Board, implementing sound financial policies, accelerating privatisation, and pursuing structural reforms.

Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999.

The Maltese Government has pursued a policy of increased economic freedom and privatisation, taking some steps to shift from reliance on government intervention to allowing a greater role for free market mechanisms.

The post 1999 government has broadly adhered to privatisation and market deregulation plans instituted by these funders.

The economist Sidney D Merlin introduced the English word as an academic term in 1943, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, writing that the Nazi Party ‘ facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires by its foremost members and collaborators through “ privatisation ” and other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation of economic affairs and government in an increasingly narrow group that may for all practical purposes be termed the national socialist elite ’.

The Sultanate's government has been pursuing economic diversification and privatisation policies for nearly a decade, having signed similar agreement with thirty of its other trading partners.

Their goal was to reduce the role of the government in the economy and to this end they supported cuts in direct taxation, the privatisation of nationalised industries and a reduction in the size and scope of the welfare state.

The European Union led economic development includes the privatisation of former government enterprises.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

In its second term, Key's government announced a policy of partial privatisation of state-owned assets.

OneLink were contracted in 1995 to introduce an automatic ticketing system, the tramway union, who opposed this, went on strike during the 1997 Grand Prix, one month later the government announced plans for privatisation of the PTC.

As a part of the privatisation process, franchise contracts between the state government and both private operators included obligations to extend and modernise the Melbourne tram network.

He opposed the privatisation of the Royal Ordnance Factories in 1984, in 1986 he criticised the Thatcher government for allowing the United States to bomb Libya from UK bases, and in 1987 he campaigned against the loss of trade union rights by workers at GCHQ.

Harvard and Andrei Shleifer, a close friend and protege of Summers, controversially paid $ 28. 5 million to settle a lawsuit by the U. S. government over the conflict of interest Shleifer had while advising Russia's privatisation program.

The US government had sued Shleifer under the False Claims Act, as he bought Russian stocks while designing the country's privatisation.

The DRA split on 2 June 2001 into two parts, a government body called DSTL ( Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ) and a company destined for privatisation, which became QinetiQ.

Mahathir also actively pursued privatisation of government enterprises from the early 1980s, both for the liberal economic reasons it was being pursued by contemporaries such as Margaret Thatcher, and because he felt that combined with affirmative action for the bumiputera it could provide economic opportunities for bumiputera businesses.

While privatisation generally improved the working conditions of Malaysians in privatised industries and raised significant revenue for the government, many privatisations occurred in the absence of open tendering processes and benefited Malays who supported UMNO.

Despite being a free-marketeer, in January 1993 Ridley spoke out against railway privatisation, and when in government, advised Thatcher against doing so.

The same year his government began a massive privatisation both partial or full, of the 200 state owned companies, as well as the hundreds of affiliates dependent on these companies.

Incidentally, the director of Grandi, Brynjólfur Bjarnason, who oversaw what was Davíð ’ s first privatisation, later became the director of the Icelandic Telephone Company which turned out to be Davíð ’ s last privatisation in government ( 2005 ).

In the new government, privatisation was continued on a much greater scale than before: a big and important chain of fish processing plants was sold ; part-public or public investment funds were merged and sold as a private investment bank ; the two commercial banks under government control were sold in a few stages ; The two coalition parties accepted the loud demand by many people that a charge would be imposed on the holders of fishing quotas.