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What sort of individuals and behaviors do our governments want to encourage?
As long as Western governments talk tough one minute and hold out the begging bowl the next, not much is likely to change.
The two governments are currently in a standoff over who has rights to the land.
Individual governments took the lead, bankrolling most of the process in the name of competition and nationalism.
Yet the oil companies and the governments of Alberta and Canada want to expand.
Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments.
So Western governments are caught in a cat-and-mouse game and at times it is unclear who is the cat and who the mouse.
Bringing in more revenue than most African governments is hardly reason to carp.
She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands.
It seems as if at every turn, the governments involved have actively, even joyously, bounded towards the worst possible decision.
The good news is that governments and media of the free world are not proving quite as accommodating this time around.
This completed a process of gradual separation from the British Empire that governments had pursued since independence.
Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.
Both saw Magna Carta as a useful declaration of liberties that could be used against governments they disagreed with.
Successive governments were able to make large amounts of money by taxing it.
The governments of Europe had no apparent response to the crisis because no one knew its cause or how it spread.
In addition to independent cities, there are also incorporated towns which operate under their own governments, but are part of a county.
National governments, NGOs, international organizations, analphabetic communities in the backwater, people everywhere know of it.
They are required to report such construction to their respective governments.
They betrayed their country by selling its secrets to other governments.
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The country's schools are financed by both local and central governments.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding.
The governments of the United Kingdom and of Wales almost invariably define Wales as a country.
Edinburgh and Cardiff are the capitals of Scotland and Wales, respectively, and house their devolved governments.
The German, Russian and Belgian governments all provided state funding to the new industries.
Basic education is an area where the EU's role is limited to supporting national governments.
Cosgrave, who had led both of these governments since August 1922, became the first President of the Executive Council.
For much of the 20th century, governments adopted discretionary policies like demand management designed to correct the business cycle.
Early governments generally relied on tax in kind and forced labor for their economic resources.
The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the national and state governments.
In July 2008, governments in the Persian Gulf reached agreements with GE to expand engine maintenance operations there.
Other governments have chosen to wait, and change the system in one go at the latest possible time.
The IMF urged governments to expand social safety nets and to generate job creation even as they are under pressure to cut spending.
National governments may solicit credit ratings to generate investor interest and improve access to the international capital markets.
The basic needs approach to development was endorsed by governments and workers' and employers' organizations from all over the world.
Starting in 2002, governments around the world upgraded money laundering laws and surveillance and monitoring systems of financial transactions.
As a result, governments and international bodies have undertaken efforts to deter, prevent, and apprehend money launderers.
In Colombia, Drug violence can be caused by factors such as, the economy, poor governments, and no authority within the law enforcement.
Both the Spanish and French governments have, at times, suppressed Basque linguistic and cultural identity.
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Angry governments gained an incentive to ignore the Continental System, which led to the weakening of Napoleon's coalition.
This did not happen because of a failure to agree on a site, and the parsimony of British governments.
The development of agriculture and water control projects were a catalyst for the development of governments.
The bill takes place as governments are growing more interested in implanting technology in ID cards to make them smarter and more secure.
Both the federal and state governments levy excise taxes on goods such as alcohol, motor fuel, and tobacco products.
The laws of the federal government and of some state governments impose excises known as the income tax.
Communist governments often attempted to repress the practice immediately after obtaining power, although it always persisted.
Furthermore, governments are unhappy with lost tax revenue and foreign exchange revenues.
Organizations such as SOS and Farm Africa are working with the federal government and local governments to create a system of forest management.
The Federal Government maintains bilateral relations with a number of other central governments in the international community.
The Somaliland and Puntland regional governments maintain their own security and police forces.
Djibouti maintains close ties with the governments of Somalia, Ethiopia, France and the United States.
These countries became the targets for aid and support from governments, NGOs and individuals from wealthier nations.
Another complication was Holland, and the various governments never resolved their problems.
After the partition, the fledgling governments of India and Pakistan were left with all responsibility to implement the border.
These relations have been formalized by a variety of organizations as well as municipal governments.
Starting with Julio Argentino Roca in 1880, ten consecutive federal governments emphasized liberal economic policies.
The Interior Security System, jointly administered by the federal and subscribing provincial governments.
Of these, the first three are affiliated with federal authorities and the last two are subordinate to state governments.
Under authoritarian governments, a ruling group may pursue its domestic policy goals without the input or consent of the people being governed.
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A number of governments and electoral commissions have also launched efforts to boost turnout.
They produce reports which are submitted for comment to governments, and which are discussed in plenary.
The Dominion of New England was dissolved and governments resumed under their earlier charters.
These governments were all subordinate to the King of England, with no explicit relationship with the British Parliament.
Currently, pressures from employers, parents and governments have defined the type of education offered at educational institutions.
Many Perth families became prominent in both provincial and national governments.
The devolved governments have no formal say in how the British Parliament legislates on reserved matters.
One issue is that the exact division of power and responsibility between federal and regional governments is often a source of controversy.
Some governments, such as Canada, are considering replacing paper notes and coins with digital currency.
The most significant of these was the Schneider Trophy races, where competition grew so fierce, only national governments could afford to enter.
In most OPEC countries, the governments own the oil companies operating on their soil.
In Eastern Europe, governments dominated by Communists adopted the Soviet model.
These companies are owned by the Union Government, or one of the many state or territorial governments, or both.
After World War II, social democratic governments introduced social reform and wealth redistribution via state welfare and taxation.
Some European governments like Switzerland, Greece, Norway and Germany offer civilian service.
Not only can coalitions of legislative groups form governments in parliamentary systems but they can form in divisions of power as well.
Military coalitions can be built and united under a singular power by multiple states and governments.
Foreign governments maintain more than seventy consulates in San Francisco.
Foster and Catchings recommended federal and state governments to start large construction projects, a program followed by Hoover and Roosevelt.
But on the other hand, the depression led the area governments to develop new local industries and expand consumption and production.
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In this stage of DT, countries are vulnerable to become failed states in the absence of progressive governments.
Channel 4 was considered for privatisation by the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
However, resistance from state and local governments makes it difficult to construct new transmission lines.
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are subsidized by many governments, and wind power and other forms of renewable energy are also often subsidized.
Environmental organizations and several governments contend that research whaling is simply a cover for commercial whaling.
In the waters of the Pacific Northwest and Iceland, the shooting of killer whales was accepted and even encouraged by governments.
We offered our opinion to the Zambian government and, as many governments do, they disregarded our advice.
A series of British governments introduced Home Rule Bills in the British Parliament.
Neither was recognised by the British government or the governments of other countries as the 'lawful' parliament of Ireland.
When the Committee of Ministers adopts a decision, it immediately becomes binding on the three governments.
In 1981, the responsibilities for construction and maintenance of the motorways shifted from the federal to the regional governments.
After World War II a succession of governments expanded the welfare state by raising the taxes.
The autonomous communities have wide legislative and executive autonomy, with their own parliaments and regional governments.
The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.
While governments can create regulations to control people's behaviours this can be undermined by illegal fishing activity.
It can prove difficult to regulate this kind of overfishing, especially for weak governments.
After the 1953 flood, governments realised that similar infrequent but devastating events were possible in the future.
In places such as Scotland, Newfoundland, and Alaska the fishing industry is a major employer, so governments are predisposed to support it.
State and local governments administer others, and some belong to private trusts, which are funded through personal donations.
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The effects of introduced species on natural environments have gained much scrutiny from scientists, governments, farmers and others.
In light of the environmental concerns surrounding trawling, many governments have debated policies that would regulate the practice.
By internalizing the costs associated with the negative effects on the environment, governments are able to encourage a cleaner water management.
The new CFP came into effect from 1 January 2014, though more talks with EU governments are involved.
The numbers disclosed by some national governments are suspected of being manipulated for political reasons.
Rapid development has been encouraged by Mediterranean governments to support the large numbers of tourists visiting the region each year.
Though denied by successive British governments for decades, it was eventually revealed that the Germans were correct about Lusitania's cargo.
The islands' governments had a legal and moral requirement to do their best for the population of the islands.
Austria was annexed while Czechoslovakia and Poland were invaded and direct German military governments were installed.
Having their own governments continuing to govern them softened the blow and kept most civilians at a distance from their oppressors.
It works with NGOs or governments, and provides health, medical, and educational supplies to recipient nations.
Few children learn these languages, but in recent years the local governments have sought to increase awareness of the traditional languages.
People without insurance through employers can participate in a national health insurance program administered by local governments.
National parks are usually owned and managed by national or state governments.
In a federation, the division of power between federal and regional governments is usually outlined in the constitution.
The gray wolf was exterminated by federal and state governments from all of the USA by 1960, except in Alaska and northern Minnesota.
Several governments maintain permanent manned research stations on the continent.
There are 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands, encompassing a total of 1,172,790 people.
The two governments were united in 1917, when Greece officially entered the war on the side of the Entente.
Privateers were sanctioned by their respective governments to raid enemy vessels.
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The captains of these ships were given letters of marque by their governments, intended to validate all actions against the enemy.
This made it burdensome for the colonial governments to enforce extradition.
An attack on commerce and shipping meant an attack on the governments to who these ships belonged.
With their attacks on private property, belief systems, and governments pirates became outcasts to the realm of the unknown and dangerous.
This system allowed private contractors to purchase the services of convicts from the state or local governments for a specific time period.
Recently, a number of municipal governments have begun the process of contracting for the construction and operation of incinerators.
Of course, services provided by governments in return for taxation also vary, making comparisons all the more difficult.
Human societies from the Paleolithic to the early Neolithic farming tribes lived without states and organized governments.
Its members are comprise appointments from the Australian and South Australian governments.
During the Cold War, most of the countries on the Balkans were governed by communist governments.
The ideas of the Enlightenment exerted significant influence on the culture, politics, and governments of Europe.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and Communist governments outside the Soviet Union were deposed.
The former governed Romania from 1990 until 1996 through several coalitions and governments with Ion Iliescu as head of state.
Dependent socialist governments were installed in the Eastern Bloc satellite states.
The Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989, Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist governments.
The governments of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India, and Mexico, among others, are also organized along federalist principles.
Federalism in the United States is the evolving relationship between state governments and the federal government of the United States.
The structures of most federal governments incorporate mechanisms to protect the rights of component states.
One method, known as 'intrastate federalism', is to directly represent the governments of component states in federal political institutions.
In Canada, the provincial governments represent regional interests and negotiate directly with the central government.
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Swiss troops still served foreign governments until 1860 when they fought in the Siege of Gaeta.
The cantonal governments consist of either five or seven members, depending on the canton.
Sponsors included governments, the king, viceroys, and local governors backed by rich men.
The use of the new techniques by indigenous groups later became a disputed factor in native resistance to the colonial and American governments.
Bolivia has been governed by democratically elected governments since 1982, prior to that it was governed by various dictatorships.
Most payments to other governments have been rescheduled on several occasions since 1987 through the Paris Club mechanism.
It also caused some problems between the Bahraini and the Qatari governments.
As the conservadores refused to recognize it, the Reform War began in 1858, during which both groups had their own governments.
These governments plan regional development, execute public investment projects, promote economic activities, and manage public property.
The goal of devolving power to regional and municipal governments was among others to improve popular participation.
The balance of power was heavily weighted toward the local and regional governments.
With urbanization their governments have become increasingly important in the state.
The single colony remained governed in this way until 1 July 1867, often with coalition governments.
Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
Forming coalition governments, however, has proved problematic at times due to differences between English and French speakers.
Citizens who accept overbearing governments have been referred to by the Portmanteau neologism of sheeple.
In other cases governments or neighbouring populations may seek to deny a standard independent status.
The fifty American states are separate sovereigns, with their own state constitutions, state governments, and state courts.
Subsequent English governments continued in their efforts to tax certain goods, passing acts regulating the trade of wool, hats, and molasses.
In all 13 colonies, Patriots had overthrown their existing governments, closing courts and driving away British officials.
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Human rights agreements require most governments to provide family planning and contraceptive information and services.
If governments fail to do the above it may put them in breach of binding international treaty obligations.
Attorney General to join in lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems, among other provisions.
Prohibited state and municipal governments from denying access to public facilities on grounds of race, color, religion or national origin.
Gross national happiness and other subjective measures of happiness are being used by the governments of Bhutan and the United Kingdom.
Improving quality of life involves action not only by NGOs, but also by governments.
Many businesses and corporations, and some governments operate on secular lines.
Through the 18th century, the area was ruled variously by Spanish, French, and British colonial governments.
As a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance.
State governments commonly delegate some authority to local units and channel policy decisions down to them for implementation.
Indian tax law involves several different taxes levied by different governments.
Larger cities also operate metropolitan police forces, under respective state governments.
The Constitution Act, 1867 assigns powers to the provincial and federal governments.
Canadian administrative law is the body of law that addresses the actions and operations of governments and governmental agencies.
The judges of the Provincial Courts are appointed by the provincial governments.
The first tends to be the case in federal systems and those with presidential governments.
It is also common that the upper house consists of delegates chosen by state governments or local officials.
Their governments had a serious disagreement on the question of British trade with Cuba.
Blair criticised other governments for not doing enough to solve global climate change.
In December 2016 Blair created the Tony Blair Institute to promote global outlooks by governments and organisations.
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State governments have a similar level of separation of power, but this is generally on the basis of convention, rather than constitution.
All organizations can innovate, including for example hospitals, universities, and local governments.
These governments take actions to implement such things as unified national markets, national currencies, and customs system.
Capitalist governments have also been criticised as oligarchic in nature due to the inevitable inequality characteristic of economic progress.
The League of the Just had been formed in 1837 in France to promote an egalitarian society through the overthrow of the existing governments.
Canadian governments would also impose binding arbitration or a new contract on the disputing parties.
The successive linguistic disputes have made the successive Belgian governments very unstable.
One strategy used by governments to reduce the value of the debt is to influence inflation.
Municipalities and local authorities may borrow in their own name as well as receiving funding from national governments.
Confucius's descendants were repeatedly identified and honored by successive imperial governments with titles of nobility and official posts.
As governments started to build roads, they started to build and operate punts as required.
Negotiations of independence commenced, but were not effective because of shifting governments and the Swedish threat of war.
Norway had nine governments between 1918 and 1935, nearly all minority and lasting an average eighteen months.
Community-based tenurial systems are rarely acknowledged by national governments or logging operators in any meaningful way.
The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments.
In the current taxation structure VAT is levied by the state governments on an ad valorem basis as a percentage of the price of the product.
The Curiax Arraigner system provides digital arraignment solutions to county, state and regional governments throughout the United States.
But governments and central banks vouched for the zombie banks, which were able to keep borrowing dollars from banks in other countries.
It is the obligation of citizens and journalists as well as governments.
Non-profits and governments may even need to get on the bandwagon.
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Our governments prefer symptomatic treatment and we run our day-to-day policy on the basis of ad-hocism.
For the first time in a decade the provincial and federal governments have taken steps to develop a sizeable number of new affordable housing.
Still, it remains a calculation both parents and governments make.
Still, some governments strive to keep their currency within a narrow range.
German successes in Europe encouraged Japan to increase pressure on European governments in Southeast Asia.
The United States, United Kingdom and other Western governments reacted to this move with a freeze on Japanese assets and a total oil embargo.
In addition, other governments in the Treaty of San Francisco did not recognize the Provisional Government as the member of the allies.
Under the austerity programme of the Cameron governments expenditure on the NHS, which had risen fairly steadily since 1950, was restricted.
For example, when engaging bilaterally with one another, Commonwealth governments exchange high commissioners instead of ambassadors.
As membership is purely voluntary, member governments can choose at any time to leave the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth is not a private club of the governments or the secretariat.
Associate Membership, which is open to associated states or overseas territories of member governments, has been granted to Gibraltar.
The Council represents governments, the Parliament represents citizens and the Commission represents the European interest.
They represented their governments and were accountable to their national political systems.
Throughout the rest of the twentieth century, Labour governments alternated with Conservative governments.
The rejection was a surprise to both the Australian and Northern Territory governments.
The various governments and native groups worked closely together to realize these goals.
The Restoration began the tradition whereby all governments looked to parliament for legitimacy.
In the 2014 local elections they lost over 300 councillors and the control of two local governments.
No change in this configuration can occur without the unanimous consent of all national governments.
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Both governments exclude some people born in Northern Ireland, in particular persons born without one parent who is a British or Irish citizen.
Following devolution in 1999, the newly devolved governments in Scotland and Wales brought in their own acts on tuition fees.
Partly at the urging of landlords, governments attempted to legislate a return to the economic conditions that existed before the Black Death.
The monarch has a similar relationship with the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
This has led successive governments to develop regional policy to try to rectify the imbalance.
Contracts to supply a given country's military are awarded by governments, making arms contracts of substantial political importance.
Armstrong became one of the first international arms dealers, selling his weapon systems to governments across the world from Brazil to Japan.
However, the sea change in attitude about war more generally meant that governments began to control and regulate the trade themselves.
Adding an ISIN code helps to distinctly identify securities and the ISIN system is used worldwide by funds, companies, and governments.
Some types of banking regulation may be delegated to other levels of government, such as state or provincial governments.
These activities are often undertaken by governments, but can also result from the work of community associations.
European governments wished to see the merger of their defence manufacturers into a single entity, a European Aerospace and Defence Company.
Most systems are publicly owned, by either local governments, transit authorities or national governments.
The subsequent military regime and BNP and Jatiya Party governments restored free markets and promoted the Bangladeshi private sector.
With the establishment of the provincial council system in the 1980s the central government handed control of most schools to local governments.
Provincial Schools consists of the vast majority of schools in Sri Lanka which are funded and controlled by the local governments.
The two governments signed the Edinburgh Agreement, which allowed for the temporary transfer of legal authority.
Postwar Communist governments in Eastern Europe severely restricted religious freedoms.
The local school boards that they largely controlled were abolished and replaced by county governments that were usually controlled by Anglicans.
In some areas, the provision of nursery school services is on a user pays or limited basis while other governments fund nursery school services.
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Some of these private schools are also partially aided by the national or state governments.
In Leviathan, Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate governments and creating an objective science of morality.
According to Locke's scheme, men knew nothing at all of governments till they met together to make one.
Iranian rock bands have taken up an internationalist position to express their rebellion from the discourses in their national governments.
In 1959, the governments of Egypt and Sudan requested UNESCO to assist their countries to protect and rescue the endangered monuments and sites.
Racetrack owners, horse trainers and state governments sometimes receive a cut of ADW revenues.
Its aims were to encourage governments to solve international disputes by peaceful means.
Annual conferences were held to help governments refine the process of international arbitration.
Its main success was through pressing the governments who administered mandated countries to end slavery in those countries.
The French and Polish governments favoured turning Memel into an international city, while Lithuania wanted to annex the area.
Immediately after the First World War, pacifism became a strong force among both the people and governments of the two countries.
According to this definition schema, the states are nonphysical persons of international law, governments are organizations of people.
States are immaterial and nonphysical social objects, whereas governments are groups of people with certain coercive powers.
During the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, internal borders were redrawn by the Allied military governments.
See list of governments in exile for unrecognised governments without control over the territory claimed.
Since 1999, certain areas of central government have been devolved to accountable governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It is one of three devolved governments in the United Kingdom, the others being the Scottish and Welsh Governments.
Since the 1990s declining profitability of agriculture and tourism has challenged the governments of the islands.
Laws passed by the States are given Royal Assent by The Queen in Council, to whom the islands' governments are responsible.
In reality, governments had long come to be chosen from parliament and to be answerable to it.
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Negotiations continued between the two governments until October 2012, when the Edinburgh Agreement was reached.
The colonies set up temporary governments or juntas which were effectively independent from Spain.
Weber's conception of charismatic authority has been noted as the basis of many nationalist governments.
He observed that banks operating in more than one country can be given a joint bailout by multiple governments.
Both governments fully recognise the particular circumstances of Northern Ireland.
Both governments reaffirm that they have no plans to introduce fixed controls on either side of the Irish land border.
It negotiates directly with foreign governments on matters within the competence of the States of Jersey.
Exchanges between OECD governments benefit from the information, analysis, and preparation of the OECD Secretariat.
As a result, there have been an increasing number of bilateral free trade agreements between governments.
On their rejection, neither the London or Dublin governments publicised the matter.
But letters of marque were given out much more sparingly by governments and were terminated as soon as conflicts ended.
The major Jacobite risings were called the Jacobite rebellions by the ruling governments.
However, this was a Personal Union, as the three Kingdoms shared a monarch, but had separate governments, churches, and institutions.
The state governments were themselves brand new and officials had no administrative experience.
The local government's duties are commonly split between county and municipal governments.
Land revenue settlements constituted a major administrative activity of the various governments in India under Company rule.
Near the beginning of the nineteenth century, various governments acted to ban the trade, although illegal smuggling still occurred.
By the end of the nineteenth century, it had formed four governments under William Gladstone.
A leading Peelite was William Ewart Gladstone, who was a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer in most of these governments.
The relative costs, benefits and beneficiaries of free trade are debated by academics, governments and interest groups.
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The other states retained their own governments, but had only limited aspects of sovereignty.
Learning of the German response, the Allied governments were free to make clear demands in their response of 14 January.
Once war was declared, many socialists and trade unions backed their governments.
To harness all the power of their societies, governments created new ministries and powers.
The events of the 1930s, and the response of the Labour and National governments to the depression, have generated much historical controversy.
In the decades immediately following the Second World War, most historical opinion was critical of the governments of the period.
The members of the Bundesrat represent the governments of the sixteen federated states and are members of the state cabinets.
The governments of Germany and the United States are close political allies.
Germany's foreign policy during the war involved the creation of allied governments under direct or indirect control from Berlin.
The Juno Beach Centre, opened in 2003, was funded by the Canadian federal and provincial governments, France, and Canadian veterans.
The Marshall Plan money was transferred to the governments of the European nations.
The Europeans could watch local, state, and federal governments work together with citizens in a pluralist society.
Until 1991, all Indian governments followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics.
The Suez Canal was opened in 1869, after ten years of work financed by the French and Egyptian governments.
Under the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s most secondary modern and grammar schools were combined to become comprehensive schools.
While stressing the need for coordination, governments have rejected talk of fiscal union or harmonisation in this regard.
The British and Irish governments agreed that Mitchell would chair an international commission on disarmament of paramilitary groups.
Firstly, the cession of territory from one state to another state has to be by international agreement between the UK and Irish governments.
The history of privatization dates from Ancient Greece, when governments contracted out almost everything to the private sector.
Studies show that private market factors can more efficiently deliver many goods or service than governments due to free market competition.

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