Sentence examples for government compared from inspiring English sources

Catalonia objects to the amount of taxes it pays Spain's central government, compared with the benefits it receives.

Of English and Welsh voters, 60% agree that they "would be very concerned if the SNP were ever in government", compared with 15% who disagree.

Davies, a trade minister in the last government, compared current practices to the papal conclave before "white smoke blows out the chimney".

In 2013-14 there were 11,929 right-to-buy sales, according to the Department for Communities and Local Government, compared with 2,368 in 2012-13.

Only seven per cent of the taxes raised from London taxpayers and businesses is spent by London's government — compared with 50percentnt in New York.

Miliband said living standards rose £3,700 over the 13 years of the last Labour government compared to a drop of £1,500 under Cameron.

Will the government compare premiums for a 64-year-old and a 19-year-old?

The government compares your proposal to other project proposals, and picks the ones that will be the cheapest to implement.

An influential Communist Party journal hit out recently at online speech critical of the party and government, comparing internet rumours to denunciation posters during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

He was possibly the first to apply epidemiological theory to drugs policy (noting that their illegality promotes crime, he coined the phrase "iatrogenic government", comparing government to a doctor whose intrusion only makes a patient worse).

"The model of prohibition and higher taxes has been tried before," Fabian Picardo, the head of the Gibraltar government, comparing gambling tax proposal to the United States' ban against alcohol from 1919 to 1933.