The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 gives Cabinet ministers sweeping powers in designated emergencies including quarantine areas, restricting travel, handing control of essential industries to the army.
Priority should therefore be: end the dock strike as quickly as possible, so that the coal dispute can be played as long as possible," advised Peter Gregson, head of the Cabinet Office civil contingencies unit.
Dugher questioned why the government had allowed 17 train operators to run no service on Boxing Day, and asked what assurances had been given over contingencies should work overrun.
Or is it sometimes a mistake to speak of a "true" preference that exists within the individual, divorced from the contingencies of a particular choice scenario?
Hayek recognised the moral problem of out-of-the-gate income inequality, but he resisted policies designed to correct it.A better approach comes from John Rawls, who noted that life prospects are deeply influenced by contingencies of birth, including inborn talents, social class and luck.
It has never been Canadian policy to engage only in peacekeeping or humanitarian intervention under UN auspices; defence planning and purchases have always included war-fighting contingencies.
Volume one focused on building a bird; volume two covers the challenges a picosatellite faces in LEO, and how to prepare for contingencies using inexpensive off-the-shelf kit (such as a $20 automotive brake-bleeder hand pump to simulate a vacuum).
Better, he thinks, to amass an imposing force, which will increase the chances that Iraq capitulates without a fight, and allow General Franks to respond to any contingencies or counter-attacks.Amid all the propaganda and conjecture, some probable elements of an American campaign can be identified.
This uncertainty helps some workers: if a firm has no idea from which direction the next competitive threat will come, one of its few sensible strategies is to amass good people to prepare for as many contingencies as possible.
The Air Force's chief scientist, Mark Maybury, points out that there will be an almost infinite combination of contingencies facing drones.
The temporary nature of the extension makes it similar to the emergency powers already available under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, Ms Smith claims.Related items Bagehot: Twenty-eight days, 28 monthsDec 13th 2007The new plan has a whiff of hasty drafting about it.
