Sentence examples for government half from inspiring English sources

THE government, half way through its term, is now focusing on the next election.

Samuel I. Schwartz, a transportation engineer and New Yorker to his kishkes, has spent 40 years — half government, half private — trying to make sense of the M.T.A.

Within its first month, more than 4,000 requests for hitherto confidential or hard-to-access information were made across central government, half of them by journalists.

ING raised 7.5 billion euros last quarter to repay the Dutch government half of the 10 billion euros in emergency aid it received late in 2008.

But when you're talking about an unprovoked war to dismantle a government half a world away, any road just won't do.

"When the government half backflipped and went from 32.5% to 19%, it insisted the new measures be revenue-neutral," Fitzgibbon said.

Unfortunately, a bitterly divided government half-opposed to the very idea of intervening in the market may be incapable of generating any such confidence.

Declaring, uncharacteristically, that money is no object, David Cameron quickly replenished the budget.Having ruled out building more airport runways around London, the coalition government half-relented.

These should be phased out, and until they are gone they should be financed half by national governments, half by Brussels.

This program will be half-funded by the federal government and half by the state.

The federal government pays half that cost, so it would reap half the savings.