* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

Not only had he largely excluded them from the often lucrative levers of government, but he also enacted the country's first income tax, fostered the growth of labor unions, and suggested that voodoo be considered as a religion equivalent to Roman Catholicism — a notion that the Europeanized elite abhorred.

Holt fostered greater collaboration between the government, the courts, employers and trade unions.

The new government gave shelter and support to South African ( ANC ) and Zimbabwean ( ZANU-PF ) liberation movements while the governments of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia fostered and financed an armed rebel movement in central Mozambique called the Mozambican National Resistance ( RENAMO ).

It was an ideology that was physiocratic, populist, and decentralist ; it fostered rural solidarity and justified demands for government subsidies.

According to the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, " the libertarian, or ' classical liberal ,' perspective is that individual well-being, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by ' as much liberty as possible ' and ' as little government as necessary.

Ruling princes often endorsed and fostered figures and even attempted to apply their ideas of government in what was known as Enlightened Despotism.

Village life fostered local democracy, best exemplified by the Open Town Meeting form of government which still exists today in parts of New England.

He also fostered an independent Australian film industry and increased government funding for the arts.

Although he trained and organized one of China's first modern armies and introduced far-ranging modernisations in law and social areas, the loyalty Yuan had fostered among his armed forces split into warlords after his death, undermining the authority of the central government.

These events, together with the increasing current account deficit fostered by government spending, caused alarm amongst Mexican and foreign T-bill ( tesobono ) investors, who sold them rapidly, thereby depleting the already low central bank reserves ( which eventually hit a record low of $ 9 billion ).

Under the leadership of Herbert Hoover, the government in the 1920s promoted business cooperation, fostered the creation of self-policing trade associations, and made the FTC an ally of " respectable business ".

The BJP was a strong critic of the Congress government, and while it opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Indira Gandhi for divisive and corrupt politics that fostered the militancy at national expense.

The court found that the parochial school system was " an integral part of the religious mission of the Catholic Church ," and held that the Act fostered " excessive entanglement " between government and religion, thus violating the Establishment Clause.

By contrast, as White notes, the lines in the Midwest and East supported by a very large population base, fostered farming, industry and mining while generating steady profits and receiving few government benefits.

It coordinated industry and government action and fostered cooperative arrangements, and sponsored research to develop promising exports as well as imports for which substitutes would be sought ( especially dyestuffs, iron and steel, and soda ash ).

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.

The Japanese and to an extent the Guomindang had fostered or ignored opium and other forms of addiction as a way of social control whereas the educational system and government of China eradicated opium, in part by education and also by harsh penalties ( including death for repeat offenders ) which are still in use.

McKernan and the Democratic leadership ( particularly John Martin ) fostered an extremely hostile and adversarial climate that consumed almost every aspect of Maine government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Generation of ’ 98 intellectuals objected to the meticulously organized structure of the Restoration system of government and the corruption that it fostered.

His conversion fostered the growth of the central royal government, which confiscated the pagan temple properties and gave them to the nobles and the church ; the medieval Georgian sources give evidence of how actively the monarchy and the nobility propagated Christianity and of the resistance they encountered from the mountain folk.

The creation of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales in 1922 completed and emphasized the development of the town, and by the end of the 50s, the government promoted an oil campaign and fostered the installation of numerous foreign companies.

All of the above concerns, along with increasing current account deficit fostered by consumer binding and government spending, caused alarm among those who bought the tesobonos.

At this time, the Gold Coast was the home of the property development boom that the Bjelke-Petersen government actively fostered, working in close co-operation with a group of developers known as the " white-shoe brigade ".

Gen. Maxwell Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is `` very much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army.

This may not be the greatest but it certainly comes close to being the greatest lesson Sam Rayburn's career, up to this hour, teaches all of us who would aspire to distinction in political life under our processes of government.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

By seeking close alliances with powerful noble families, Alexios put an end to the tradition of imperial exclusivity and coopted most of the nobility into his extended family and, through it, his government.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

Crony capitalism is a term describing an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials.

Corrupt governments may favor one set of business owners who have close ties to the government over others.

The Irish Republican political party, Sinn Féin is also known to have close political links to the Cuban government.

The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

After the death of Abuna Takla Haymanot in 1988, Abune Merkorios who had close ties to the Derg ( Communist ) government was elected Patriarch of Ethiopia.

At the close of 2006, the government had exceeded its budget for electricity subsidies, spending close to U. S. $ 650 million.

Although nominally a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, after the 1974 revolution, Ethiopia moved into a close relationship with the Soviet Union and its allies and supported their international policies and positions until the change of government in 1991.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.

The involvement of governments, through regulation and taxation, has led to a close connection between many governments and gaming organizations, where legal gambling provides significant government revenue, such as in Monaco or Macau.

His Marxist-Leninist government established close ties with Cuba, Nicaragua, and other communist bloc countries.

The Eisenhower administration at the time in the U. S. were not happy about the Arbenz government, they considered Arbenz to be too close to Communism ; there have been reports that Arbenz ’ s wife was a Communist and part of the Communist Party in Guatemala.

Following the Saarland state election of August 2009, The Greens held the balance of power after a close election where no two-party coalitions could create a stable majority government.

Some English government officials felt that Louis Bonaparte was seeking foreign adventure in the spirit of his uncle — Napoleon I. Consequently, these officials felt that any close association with Louis Bonaparte would eventually lead Britain into another series of wars, like the wars with France and Napoleon dating from 1793 until 1815.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the CGT leadership developed close ties to the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduaras — PNH ), and several leaders served in the Callejas government.