Sentence examples for inefficient public services from inspiring English sources

Rudy Giuliani notwithstanding, New Yorkers believe that theirs is a land of big-spending pols and inefficient public services.

People voted for Margaret Thatcher because they were unhappy with too-powerful trade unions, excessive taxation, inefficient public services that seemed to be run principally for those who worked in them and bossy municipal socialism that had produced dreadful tower-block estates in place of (admittedly often awful) Coronation Streets.

Demonstrations have been taking place across Brazil for more than a week over corruption, inefficient public services and high levels of spending ahead of next year's World Cup.

Across Brazil, protests have been taking place for more than a week against corruption, inefficient public services and high levels of spending on preparations for next year's World Cup.

Echoing oft-repeated themes, he said Russia needed to streamline and cleanse a stodgy and corrupt bureaucracy, restructure inefficient public service monopolies, bring competition to a creaking public housing system and create a banking system to pump money into mortgages, business loans and other cash-starved sectors.

But anyone hoping for a truly radical revamp of the country's high-quality but hugely expensive and inefficient public health service will be glum.

Often this means removing obstacles, like untargeted and wasteful energy subsidies, inefficient public spending or poor service delivery.

This country may surpass Kuwait in oil exports by 2010, but it is still crippled by an inefficient and corrupt public service, decaying infrastructure and attacks by a weakened but unrepentant rebel army, say diplomats and local and United Nations officials.

Falling global prices for phosphates led to sharply lower state revenues, while growing corruption and massive expenditures on the bloated civil service and inefficient public enterprises strained the fiscal resources of the state.

As a result, public services become highly inefficient for an obvious reason: the destruction of staff morale.

Public services are hopelessly inefficient, Government administration is weak and an enormous budget deficit keeps growing despite pledges from national leaders to bring it under control.