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government and pledged
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.
Donor countries have pledged the $ 43 million international share of the three-year tribunal budget, while the Cambodian government ’ s share of the budget is $ 13. 3 million.
In December, the Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang pledged allegiance to Chiang's government, completing Chiang's nominal unification of China and ending the Warlord Era.
The government also pledged to return to peasants land that had been confiscated by the Honduran military in 1983.
The army also pledged to resolve the dispute and has reversed the decisions of the government by letting Hezbollah preserve its telecoms network and re-instating the airport's security chief.
Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war ; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and every enemy of importance to the hostile government, or of peculiar danger to the captor ; it allows of all destruction of property, and obstruction of the ways and channels of traffic, travel, or communication, and of all withholding of sustenance or means of life from the enemy ; of the appropriation of whatever an enemy's country affords necessary for the subsistence and safety of the Army, and of such deception as does not involve the breaking of good faith either positively pledged, regarding agreements entered into during the war, or supposed by the modern law of war to exist.
Congress also debated whether the federal government had the authority to accept the gift, though with Adams leading the initiative, Congress decided to accept the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836.
However, the CCF and Socreds had pledged to cooperate with a Tory government, meaning that St. Laurent would have likely been defeated in the legislature in any event.
In the 2002 legislative elections, no party gained a majority ; Touré then appointed a politically inclusive government and pledged to tackle Mali ’ s pressing social and economic development problems.
The government has pledged 15 billion CFAF in 2009 to fund road safety, and has pledged to create a national road security agency to control highway traffic.
The manifesto also pledged that a Labour government would abolish the House of Lords, nationalise banks and leave the then-European Economic Community.
While the ethnic-based, three-tier, South African-imposed governing authorities have been dissolved, the current government pledged for the sake of national reconciliation to retain civil servants employed during the colonial period.
In July 2001 Prime Minister Deuba announced a cease-fire, which the Maoists pledged to observe, as part of a government effort to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict.
In 2006, the Finnish government pledged 4. 9 million euros to help the Nicaraguan government integrate the ICT systems of 20 town councils.
The government has pledged to the Albanian Government its continuing support ;
On July 9, the provisional government in exile released a government program, in which it pledged to organize an effective democratic regime, promote political pluralism and universal suffrage, and ban ideological discrimination, except for those promoting the " return of Somoza's rule ".
In it he pledged that the Conservatives would endorse modest reform, but the Whigs instead formed a compact with Daniel O ' Connell's Irish Radical members to repeatedly defeat the government on various bills.
Under the Ohrid Agreement, the Macedonian government pledged to improve the rights of the Albanian population, that make up just over 25 % of the population.
Sinclair and Attlee agreed that options 1 and 2 were unacceptable and Churchill pledged to support the government.
The new government was pledged to abolish the system by which Paris was fed at the expense of all France, and the cessation of the distribution of bread and meat at nominal prices was fixed for 20 February 1796.
Although official and unofficial repression of the opposition parties ( the Dominican Revolutionary Party and National Civic Union, as well as the communist Dominican Popular Movement ) continued, Balaguer publicly condemned this repression and in September he pledged to form a coalition government.

government and stand
Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.
On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.
Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.
* 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
The parade passes down the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, where the President of the French Republic, his government and foreign ambassadors to France stand.
Their principal claim relates to the definition of who is a citizen of Ivory Coast ( and so who can stand for election as president ), voting rights and their representation in government in Abidjan.
A group of left wing Labour MPs organised under the banner of " Keep Left ", urged the government to steer a middle way between the two emerging superpowers, and advocated the creation of ' third force ' of European powers to stand between the USA and USSR.
The language appeared to be in serious decline when the French government reversed its unsupportive stand and began some strong measures to save it.
The Front was the only legal political organisation allowed to stand in the elections, and the government reported that 93 % of Albanians voted for it.
Following Huerta's overthrow Francisco Cardenas fled to Guatemala where he committed suicide in 1920 after the new Mexican government had requested his extradition to stand trial for the murder of Madero.
One of the authors ' main arguments is that most prominent scientists who have been voicing opposition to the near-universal consensus are being funded by industries, such as automotive and oil, that stand to lose money by government actions to regulate greenhouse gases.
The opposition parties, regrouped in the Democratic Convergence ( Convergence Démocratique, CD ), demanded that the elections be annulled, and that Préval stand down and be replaced by a provisional government.
Reformism is the belief that socialists should stand in parliamentary elections within capitalist society, and if elected, utilize the machinery of government to pass political and social reforms for the purposes of ameliorating the instabilities and inequities of capitalism.
The United States government frowns on it, but will not stand in the way.
On 30 June 2004, Saddam Hussein, held in custody by U. S. forces at the U. S. base " Camp Cropper ", along with 11 other senior Ba ' athist leaders, were handed over legally ( though not physically ) to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offences.
Threatening government officials is another classic way of expressing defiance toward the government and unwillingness to stand for its policies.
On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?
As a proponent of laissez-faire on the economic front, he declared, " the chief duty of the government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
The Métis and the Anglo-Métis ( commonly known as Countryborn, children of First Nations women and Orcadian, Scottish or English men ), joined forces to stand up for their rights and to protect their age-old way of life against an aggressive and distant Anglo-Saxon government and its local colonizing agents.
What is the government ’ s role in this ; where do they stand?
Formidable obstacles stand in the way of Madagascar's realizing its considerable growth potential ; the extent of government reforms, outside financial aid, and foreign investment will be key determinants.
Putin's stand against oligarchs is generally popular with the Russian people, even though the jailing of Khodorkovsky is mainly seen as part of a takeover operation by government officials, according to another Levada-Center poll.
The initials IS stand for " Investment and Saving equilibrium " but since 1937 have been used to represent the locus of all equilibria where total spending ( consumer spending + planned private investment + government purchases + net exports ) equals an economy's total output ( equivalent to real income, Y, or GDP ).

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